[Asterisk-video] Video Conferencing Solutions

[Sergio Garcia Murillo]

Hi Nathan,

I can only speak about my Media Mixe (first Install libgsm ;)

For my experience although it seems that multiconference solutions have 
great end user potential I have not seen any commercial interest on it. 
That's one of the main reasons I have not continue improving my solution.

Anyone have a different perception about these kind of services?

Best regards
Sergio

Nathan Baker escribió:
> Hi,
>  
> I was wondering what video conferencing solutions are actively being 
> developed and used today.  I have been reading as much as possible in 
> the past couple months, and haven't been able to find any solutions 
> that are stable enough to be used in production.  Here's what I've 
> tried so far:
>  
> - app_conference
>  
> This is the only one I've been able to get more than two videos going 
> on so far.  It seems pretty basic, and as soon as I start using DTMF 
> to switch videos, it stops working right.  I usually end up getting 
> distorted video, which looks like it's trying to mix the video and 
> show two people in one stream (which I thought app_conference wouldn't 
> do).  When everyone hangs up after this happens, the module won't exit 
> properly, and I have to manually kill asterisk and start it up again.
>  
> - VMukti (1videoconference)
>  
> I started installing this, but it seems like overkill for what I need, 
> and it doesn't seem very mature.  I didn't really want to use a 
> seperate Windows Server with MSSQL, etc.
>  
> - Confiance VideoMixer
>  
> I wasn't ever able to get this compiled.  First off, the 
> confiance_videomixer-0.1.tar.gz download seems to be missing.  When I 
> finally tracked it down from an old mirror site, I couldn't get it to 
> properly recognize the ffmpeg libraries.  I gave up thinking I would 
> try Sergio García Murillo's Media Mixer
>  
> - Media Mixer (http://sip.fontventa.com <http://sip.fontventa.com/>)
>  
> This looked more promising at first, but I couldn't get it to compile 
> either.  First it was missing /usr/lib/libagg.a, and then is failed with:
>  
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgsm
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [mcu] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mcumediaserver/media'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>  
> To be honest, I'm very surprised at the lack of documentation and 
> activity for projects related to asterisk and video conferencing.  It 
> seems like there is a lot of potential, especially since the audio and 
> video quality of one-to-one calls are so good.  Are people actually 
> using these projects for more than testing, or is everyone using 
> commercial solutions?  For my requirements, I would be very happy to 
> find something that would just take the first 4 callers, mix their 
> video into a 2x2 array, and then send that video back to all participants.
>  
> Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>  
> Thanks,
> Nate
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