[Asterisk-Dev] meetme enhancements to improve efficiency

[Geoff Karl]

On 12/1/05, SteveK <stevek at stevek.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 1, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Geoff Karl wrote:
>
> > On 12/1/05, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
> >> Geoff Karl wrote:
> >>
> >>> I would like to see something similar to app_conference where the
> >>> transcoding occurs only once per codec.  This will allow meetme to
> >>> scale much better.
> >>>
> >>> Is there any interest in this?
> >>
> >> Absolutely.
> >
> > Kevin, you know the internals infinitely better than I do.  Is this a
> > major undertaking?
>
> Why don't you just use app_conference?
>
> It might be easier to add the functionality you need to
> app_conference, than it would be to change the mixing architecture of
> meetme to be the same as app_conference.
>
> You can already add most of this functionality to app_conference, if
> you attach something to the manager interface:  From the manager
> interface, app_conference will report each user's DTMF digits dialed,
> and will also allow you to, e.g. play sounds to users etc.
>
> The idea here has been to keep all the "features" out of
> app_conference, and move them out to the manager interface, where you
> can write them in a much simpler language (i.e. perl, or whatever is
> your favorite).
>
> -SteveK
>

I have looked at app_conference many, many times and it looks great,
but I really want to see something supported within Asterisk. 
Conferencing is a killer app and Asterisk itself should have a very
good implementation.

Geoff