[asterisk-users] Does Asterisk 1.8. Supports Video Calls

[Khalid Touati]

so it seems Asterisk Versions does not support video I guess


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Khalid Touati <khalidtouati at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Any article that goes through this (seems to be tedious) task to add video
> support and patents?
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Joshua Colp <jcolp at digium.com> wrote:
>
>> Khalid Touati wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>
>> Kia ora,
>>
>>
>>  Do you know of any asterisk community version that does video codec
>>> trans-coding or in other words supports video? I have 1.8.8.1 and I see
>>> h263.c format files but can't see that codec in make menuselect. it
>>> might be just a license issue (if h263 has to have license), but not
>>> sure if community versions offer video calls at all.
>>>
>>
>> Video transcoding is both usually patent encumbered as well as
>> computationally expensive. Asterisk supports passing through the video
>> untouched, but that's about it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
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