[Asterisk-video] Asterisk as an MCU

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:46 -0400, Curt Shaffer wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification. So if I want some functionality of an MCU I
> could use Asterisk as long as the clients were talking the same (supported)
> codec? 
> 
> I have never had to build an MCU so I don't know much about them. What we
> are looking for is video conferencing from workstations through a central
> system with the ability to dial in from the PSTN and to do IP calls and
> possibly include some sort of presence features. As far as I can see then
> Asterisk can fit this bill or am I missing key functionality or performance
> from not having full MCU capabilities?

Full video MCU functionality would require mixing video streams which
Asterisk does not support at this time either.  Mixing video streams
would imply decoding/encoding the streams, even if all of the endpoints
were using supported codecs.

Jeff

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