[Asterisk-video] h263 blackholed.

Miles Scruggs asterisk at wideideas.com
Tue May 20 16:36:44 CDT 2008


I'm trying to get asterisk to proxy h263 for a video call, but not  
having any luck.  I have posted a full call trace here:

http://pastebin.com/d330aecb5

While watching a full packet dump on the asterisk node, I can see the  
h263 coming in from the clients, but it never leaves (asterisk never  
originates 1 h263 packet).  You can see on line 123 of the pastebin  
that the calls get setup without video but then h263 is renegotiated  
on line 456.  The second end point sets up h263  on line 313.  I'm  
pretty lost as to how I can get asterisk to play nice.  This is   
Asterisk 1.4.18.1

I just was able to test, and if the call sets up (the initial invite  
contains) with h263, and isn't done with a re-invite at a later time  
then it works fine.

my sip conf looks like the following:

[general]
type=friend
host=dynamic
context=incoming
srvlookup=yes
canreinvite=no
videosupport=yes
qualify=yes
nat=yes
host=dynamic            ; This device registers with us
disallow=all ;better for custom-tunning codec selection
allow=ulaw
allow=alaw
allow=h263 ; H.263 is our video codec
allow=h263p ; H.263p is the enhanced video codec
dtmfmode=rfc2833 ; inband is not supported in compressed codecs like  
gsm, so we better set it to rfc2833


[miles_8920_lap]
type=friend
host=dynamic
secret=*****
context=internal_devices        ; the internal_devices context  
controls what we can do
mailbox=8920 at sixsquares
callerid= Miles Scruggs <8920>
canreinvite=no

[jon_8926_desk]

type=friend
host=dynamic
secret=*****
context=internal_devices
mailbox=8926 at sixsquares
callerid=Jonathan Larsen <8926>
canreinvite=no



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