[Asterisk-video] Asterisk crashes on app_mp4application execution

[Sergio Garcia]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Mitul Limbani <mitul at enterux.com>
Reply-To: Development discussion of video media support in Asterisk<asterisk-video at lists.digium.com>
Date:  Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:47:28 -0400

>Sergio,
>
>Quoting Sergio Garcia <sergio.garcia at fontventa.com>:
>
>> You have to append this lines to the apps/Makefile and recompile it
>>
>> app_mp4.so : app_mp4.o
>>     $(CC) $(SOLINK) -o $@ ${CYGSOLINK} $< ${CYGSOLIB} -lmp4 -lmp4v2
>>
>> (remove the spaces before $(CC) by a tab)
>>
>> By the way, you'll need mpeg4ip latest libraries  in your system. Check
>> http://sip.fontventa.com/content/view/15/44/
>>
>> BR
>> Sergio
>
>Cool, I have the latest mpeg4ip 1.5.x compiled and installed and also 
>app_mp4 aint segfaulting now.
>
>But i cant see the video, mebbe i think it might be due to codec ?
>the client that i have support H.263, H.263p (1998, 1999) so if the mp4 
>test files are in H.264 mebbe thats the reason why i am not seeing the 
>video ?

Yes, currently there is no video transcoding support in asterisk. Also
h264 support in my applications has not been tested (I don't have hardware
or software in which I can test it easely).

I recommend you to use h263p (1998 or 2000) as your preffered video codec..

BR
Sergio