[asterisk-users] IAX2 support of video

[Hans Witvliet]

On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 08:21 -0600, Danny Nicholas wrote:
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jerry
> Geis
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 6:53 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] IAX2 support of video
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>         According to this:
>         https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Video+Telephony
>         yes.
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> I have a local server with two video phones - running SIP to each
> phone. Works.
> Then I have an IAX2 connection from that local machine to another
> machine.
> then a SIP connection from that machine to another machine where the
> same model
> video phone is in use. A call to that phone does not show video only
> audio.
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> All machines have in sip.conf:videosupport=yes
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> Is there something else to get SIP/IAX2/SIP video call to work?
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> Thanks
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> Jerry
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> Make sure you have the H.26X codec enabled at all points.
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Video is hard, but to make life easier, it is handy to add an extension
that does the echo-function (after an optional announcement)
That takes video-codec-mismatch out of the equation, as you are talking
to yourself.

Other benefit is that there is always someone that will answer the
phone ;-) And won't complain doing video-cakk when dialing at 3am.

hans