R: Re: [Asterisk-video] vdo conf

[Simon Pietro Romano]

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Scrive Alfonso Buono <alfonso.buono at criai.it>:

> Hello all,
>  
> a possibility cuold be:
>  
> 4 - A softphone that has a single window diveded in a large square with the
> speaker's video and n little square with other participants screenshots (to
> reduce bandwith usage). 
>  
> It would be a full-screen application to have the right impact.
>  
> Bye
>  
> Alfonso
> 
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> Da: asterisk-video-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-video-bounces at lists.digium.com] Per conto di Ramtin Amin
> Inviato: Monday, July 03, 2006 1:18 PM
> A: Development discussion of video media support in Asterisk
> Oggetto: RE: Re: [Asterisk-video] vdo conf
> 
> 
> By the way, I wonder now!
> If people are videoconferancing, is it better to have
> 1- a softphone capable of showing everybody, which means one window for each
> one that is talking. (what would happen with current hardphone that have
> only one screen)
> 2- a softphone that has a single window but the pbx that sends a gride with
> the video of everybody in it ? (Since the video resolution is not that
> great, is it really worth it or after 4 people it would just look like 1
> pixel for each head we see)
> 3- everybody see the one that talks. So if you want people to see you, you
> have to be louder that the otherone!
>  
> 4- any other idea ?
> 
> 
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> > Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 13:08:54 +0200
> > From: oej at edvina.net
> > To: asterisk-video at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-video] vdo conf
> > 
> > Paul Cadach wrote:
> > > Hello Andrew,
> > > 
> > > Andrey Kouprianov wrote:
> > > 
> > >>Yes, it's video conferencing. Just like the meetme conferencing. The
> > >>only problem is that everyone says that you have to allow vdo codecs
> > >>in sip.conf first, but, feature page in asterisk.org does not list any
> > >>vdo codec support and guys on forum there kind of discourage usage of
> > >>vdo conferencing uptil now. So I assume that vdo conferencing is not a
> > >>fully blown feature in Asterisk yet.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > To perform videoconferencing Asterisk needs to have video-transconding
> > > functionality (i.e. meetme/other sort of conferencing software) should
> _decode_
> > > video streams coming from conference participants, merge them into
> signle
> > > "screen" then _encode_ it back with codecs supported by conference
> parties. In
> > > current state video transcoding functionality isn't supported by
> Asterisk.
> > > 
> > > Also, video conferencing have some sort of video-audio synchronization
> issues
> > > which isn't handled in current Asterisk's design.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Shortly:
> > > 1) There is no video codecs;
> > > 2) There is no audio-video sychnronization.
> > > 
> > > 
> > provided everyone use the same codec, there is another solution which
> > only shows the talker's incoming video stream, i.e. do not mix video,
> > only audio. There has to be some delay though, so the videostream
> > does not jump around all the time as someone coughs...
> > 
> > Some people on this mailing list are working on it and we're discussing
> > how to make it into a contribution for Asterisk 1.6.
> > 
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