[asterisk-users] Video on Hold?
Gordon Henderson
gordon+asterisk at drogon.net
Thu Sep 11 13:15:39 CDT 2008
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Russell Bryant wrote:
> k4rjj at bellsouth.net wrote:
>> Is the idea to switch to another video source or stay with the callers
>> camera? An option for both would be nice. I could see a help desk
>> placing a caller in que and a 1-2 min video coming on showing some
>> simple video of "how to hook it up".
>
> What I had in mind was to play a video stream that went along with the
> on hold audio. I was going to make it so if a video file was found with
> the same name as the audio file being played, it would play it.
I rather naively tried this :)
Well, Echo() was echoing back video and Record() was recording video and
audio line this, and Playback() was playing it back, so ...
> If I understand you correctly, you're also suggesting echoing back the
> caller's video. I'm not sure why that's useful, and it's also more
> difficult to implement with the current code.
Echo() currently does this for me (asterisk 1.2.30), but I guess you'd
have to transfer the caller to an Echo() extension, then get them back
again....
Gordon
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