rtt_it's picture
Posted September 11th, 2008 by rtt_it (tadpole)

I, im currently evaluating video conference solutions and im pretty much disappointed. im running freepbx (in a flash / asterisk / switchvox ) in several business locations and would like to go on the next step. i have the vision of a video-extension powered by asterisk and mysql:
my idea is:

conference rooms are already available in freepbx, so as soon as people arrive in the room, asterisk knows of them. a script could update a mysql-table, (userid, IP, etc). all we need now is a flash gui to display webcams streamed from that ip. is that so difficult?
these would be just a beginnig etc

ideas? opinions?

thx


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Any Ideas?

blakeray's picture
On October 27th, 2008 blakeray (tadpole) said:

This would be great. I have a customer who is asking for this now. They are a non profit and are asking me to look into the MS product since its much cheaper for them. I looked at VMukti but you need the full blown SQL for Windows.

This would be great to be ableto offer.


I have been asked also

jclambert's picture
On December 18th, 2008 jclambert (Leap Frog) said:

I have been asked also. This would be a great addition to the product!


What type of video

SkykingOH's picture
On December 19th, 2008 SkykingOH (Leap Frog) said:

What type of video conference do you envision? Most MCS's (multimedia conference servers) such as RadVision use a "Hollywood Squares" style presentation where the user with the floor is in the center window with the participants around the center window.

Video Mixing is far more demanding on bandwidth and CPU than voice.

There are several open source MCS projects, none of which work very well.

Asterisk could handle the call control and then hand the call off to the MCS. This in itself would be a significant work effort.

Asterisk must support the feature before FreePBX can integrate it. Since SIP VC is just gaining traction and H.323 support is limited in Asterisk I doubt the project would move in that direction.

Additionally most MCS's also allow legacy ISDN H.320 and ATM H.321 endpoints to participate in the conference.

Asterisk can setup a point to point SIP video call in pass through mode today.