[asterisk-users] Grandstream surveillance devices

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 03 April 2009 16:41:34 Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> I just got a spam from telephonydepot (which I invited to spam me, so I
> guess I have to call it legit marketing :) ), and they have some new
> device that is meant to be a surveillance camera with audio, but the
> interface is POE and SIP!  A cool idea.  Anyone playing with this toy yet?
>
> I am trying to wrap my head around how asterisk might fit with the model
> of this camera being "recorded" 24x7 with a continuous video/audio stream.
> Does asterisk even support recording video streams?

Yes, Asterisk supports recording video streams, although the format might be
a little weird.  Most of the recorded video formats are merely frame dumps,
meant only for Asterisk to requeue to another destination.  They are not
generally useful otherwise.  I'm also not sure how well it'd work with
continuous streams.  There's also no support for transcoding of video, so what
is streamed is what is kept.

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Tilghman