[Asterisk-video] pipes of peace?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

> yes, it could be done with libavcodec or ffmpeg the same way we use  
> lame for playing MP3. However, it's not that easy because decoding  
> and reencoding a video takes a lot of cpu load. and for the music  
> on hold, the same MP3 is played once for everybody on hold. So  
> pretending that asterisk could videotranscode using FFMPEG is true,  
> but on the same machine, how many people could have a transcoded  
> video simultaneously ?

Not too many, really, but it's like with audio codecs, transcoding  
makes it all flexible.

> Your idea could be kept for a VideoOnHold for example, where ffmpeg  
> would play the same video (advertisement) for all the people on hold.

it should be possible to use it there too, porn on hold!, but not  
only that. IMHO a system without transcoding support isn't really  
optimal.

roy
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