[asterisk-users] Does Asterisk 1.8. Supports Video Calls

[Khalid Touati]

Any article that goes through this (seems to be tedious) task to add video
support and patents?


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com> wrote:

> Khalid Touati wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>
> Kia ora,
>
>
>  Do you know of any asterisk community version that does video codec
>> trans-coding or in other words supports video? I have 1.8.8.1 and I see
>> h263.c format files but can't see that codec in make menuselect. it
>> might be just a license issue (if h263 has to have license), but not
>> sure if community versions offer video calls at all.
>>
>
> Video transcoding is both usually patent encumbered as well as
> computationally expensive. Asterisk supports passing through the video
> untouched, but that's about it.
>
> Cheers,
>
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