[Asterisk-Users] Re: MeetMe Video option

[Regovich, Timothy]

So you are actually getting the video to come out though?
I am not getting any outbound video RTP traffic at all.  What settings do
you have?

If I get a chance this weekend I will take a look at the implementation and
see what I can see.
The mosaic thing should be pretty easy actually (really, just a scaling of
each incoming stream and tiling them), but that won't work well for anything
bigger than a 2x2 matrix, considering the bandwidth limitations of most
users.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matt Lawson
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 3:13 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: MeetMe Video option


That's one of the things that's been on our (1control, I have nothing to 
do with Digium) wishlist/"to do" list that just hasn't gotten done yet.

Currently, video in meetme is not supported.  What we experience is the 
audio will conference with the other audio streams but the video just 
freezes.  I was hoping to look into someday but I'm swamped with 1000 
other things of higher priority.  I have been thinking though, of some 
ways it could be supported, starting with the simplest and easiest:

1.  First, if only 2 of the phones in the conference are video phones, 
allow them to exchange their video with each other, while having all of 
the audio streams conferenced as usual.

2a.  The next step could be having each videophone "rotate" which stream 
it was showing for a few seconds (20 seconds maybe?).  i.e. you could 
have 3 video calls mixed with several audio-only calls.  Initially video 
call #1 would show #2's image, #2 would show #3's image, #3 would show 
#1's image for a few seconds, then rotate them by 1.  Of course you 
don't need to show your own!  :)  Actually, ours has a 
picture-in-picutre in the corner so you can see yourself all the time 
anyway.

2b.  The other option instead of time-rotating the images would be to 
try to show the image of whoever was talking.  That kind of sounds like 
a pain to me, but maybe it's doable.

3.  The really fancy thing would be to have Asterisk decode all of the 
video frames and create a 2x2 or 2x3 or 3x3 etc. mosaic, re-encode them 
and send them to each client.  That REALLY sounds like a pain to me, but 
again, maybe it's doable.

Right now I'd be pretty happy with 2a though.

- Matt



>Message: 3
>From: "Regovich, Timothy" <timothy_regovich at merck.com>
>To: "'asterisk-users at lists.digium.com'" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:07:46 -0500
>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] MeetMe Video option
>Reply-To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>
>Hello All:
>
>Has anyone configured a meetme conference to use video?
>I have successfully used video phones to talk through *, but I cannot seem
>to get video when those phones dial into a meetme conference.
>
>Is there something else that I need to be doing other than set the "v" flag
>on my extension for the meetme app?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tim
>  
>


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