[Asterisk-Users] * Video changes

[Steve Underwood]

WipeOut . wrote:

>I thought that SIP was a voice ONLY specification and that the reasoning behind the development of SIP was to do purely voice to avoid  what has happened in H.323, the H.323 protocol specification grew to try and be everything to everyone (Voice, Video and Data Sharing) and so became very complex and bloated..
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>I may be wrong on this..
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SIP basically just gets two parties connected. Whether they then 
exchange audio, video or whatever is largely irrelevant. The only medium 
dependant thing I can think of in SIP is codec negotiation. Video 
doesn't bloat SIP at all.

Actually H.323 isn't that bloated - it just uses ASN.1 which most people 
think is a PITA :-(

Regards,
Steve