[Asterisk-Users] Video Conferencing

[Angus Berry]

Larry,

I'm glad you grasped my intent... it seems to me a likely scenario for
'remote learning', presentations or conferences.

The main station would be the broadcaster and the clients would call
into the conference and their user experience would be based on their
set up. You could even have audio only clients on 56k dial-up. I'm
assuming that most clients will be on Win boxes with Netmeeting already
installed.

I'd really like for a 'greeter' to take the call and verify the remote
caller before passing them into the conference, which sounds like
something * could do.

The key thing for me is for the clients to be able to ask questions and
hear answers. I don't anticipate requiring a white board.. but you know
how feature creep goes :-)

I appreciate the link you sent.

Angus

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 10:51, Larry Keyes wrote:
> Your idea sounds very cool, and it makes perfect sense. Whether the clients
> dial-in via hardware or software, and whether they only receive video, I
> don't think matters as far as asterisk is concerned (except for bandwith,
> natch), a call is a call, only the available media is different.  
> 
> One thing I'm not sure about is whether * supports T.120 data sharing
> (whiteboard) capability, if you needed that.   
> 
> I think much of what you might be looking for is provided by Ilinc.  
> I had to do some looking around for this myself a month or so ago, and came
> up with a quick list: 
> 
> http://www.mxdesign.net/Interactive%20Presentations/index.htm
> 
> I've been expermenting with Asterisk with SIP, and was interested in the *
> H.323 support. 
> 
> -- Larry 
> 
> >>>>
> What I'm looking to do is more of a broadcast scenario. I would have the
> good hardware at the main office, then clients would dial in via software
> clients. They would be able to receive video & audio and from the main
> office and ask questions back via audio, but the clients wouldn't be sending
> video, just receiving it. Does this make sense..
> it's for a remote learning environment.
> 
> I'm hoping * would allow me to manually greet callers before they're added
> to the conference. As I mentioned I want to use * to leverage a separate,
> existing planned investment in a voice only * system for our office.
> >>>>
> 
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