[asterisk-users] Video conferencing?

[Steve Totaro]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Jonathan Rose <jrose at digium.com> wrote:

> 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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>
I am deploying OpenMeetings on EC2 right now, you might want to check it
out.

Can be standalone or as I am doing, setting it up with Asterisk
https://cwiki.apache.org/OPENMEETINGS/openmeetings-asterisk-integration.html

Here are some useful videos and various howtos
https://www.google.com/#q=openmeetings<https://www.google.com/#q=openmeetings+site:youtube.com&sa=X&ei=vfEWUJjAB-200QGI4oH4CA&ved=0CKgBENsB&hl=en&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=1f871a50839302ae&biw=1280&bih=576>

Looks like it will be pretty cool.

Thanks,
Steve T
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