[asterisk-users] Video conferencing?

[Jonathan Rose]

Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> From: "Ken D'Ambrosio" <ken at jots.org>
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:24:50 PM
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Video conferencing?
> 
> Hi, all.  I'm 99% sure that Asterisk technically *supports*
> videoconferencing -- at least, as a conduit -- but are there products
> out there that leverage that?  I've been tasked with bringing
> videoconferencing internal to my company, and had been coming up
> empty
> looking for standalone solutions, when I suddenly realized that my
> favorite PBX software might be able to help out.
> 
> Thanks much for any pointers you might be able to give me,
> 
> -Ken

I haven't used much in the way of video myself, but Asterisk 10 did some
major overhauls to the confbridge application and I believe you can perform
video teleconferencing with basically any SIP device/program that allows
for a video stream, at least as long as it supports one of the video formats
that Asterisk uses (h263 or h264). You could do some basic testing for this
by running a few softphones connected to your Asterisk box. Jitsi does video
calling as does Linphone... though I've personally had some trouble setting
up h264 to work with Linphone. Good luck.

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