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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan as Banyu) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Regovich, Timothy wrote:>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. > > >What video phone did you use?
I have written my own. Java(JMF) based. It is pretty rudimentary, but does handle audio (gsm, ulaw) and video (jpeg and H263). Tim -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of WipeOut Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:30 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] MeetMe Video option Regovich, Timothy wrote:>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. > > >What video phone did you use? _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Citeren "Regovich, Timothy" <timothy_regovich@merck.com>:> 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.Cool, what devices are you using ? Would love to try some :-)> Is there something else that I need to be doing other than set the "v" flag > on my extension for the meetme app?Hmm, don't think that's supported yet ?? -- Met vriendelijke groet, Florian Overkamp ObSimRef BV
I would also be interested in this in regards to working with D-Link videophones. They use the same setup as netmeeting h.263, but with another rfc add on. I know current OpenH323 configs do not quite work with it, but I saw a post that it is in cvs working using a patch to ffmpeg. -- Jonathan Moore Director of Technology Winfield Public Schools Office 620.221.5100 Fax 620.221.0508 Quoting "Regovich, Timothy" <timothy_regovich@merck.com>:> I have written my own. Java(JMF) based. > It is pretty rudimentary, but does handle audio (gsm, ulaw) and video (jpeg > and H263). > > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com > [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of WipeOut > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:30 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] MeetMe Video option > > > Regovich, Timothy wrote: > > >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. > > > > > > > What video phone did you use? > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains > information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New > Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the > United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as > Banyu) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally > privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity > named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have > received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail > and then delete it from your system. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >Visit Winfield Public Schools at http://usd465.com ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
I was wondering if it was supported, and how. It seems to me that video conferencing is a different beast than audio conferencing because you cannot simply mix video like you can mix audio. The conferencing server would have to 1) "mix" the video by creating one aggregate outbound paneled type window, or 2) have each incoming stream sent to each registered listening stream, which is ok, as long as the client can handle multiple incoming streams reasonably (yes, I realize that this results in n*n bandwidth usage), or 3) the conference serer would need to designate a master video stream and ignore all other incoming streams. Each of these seem to be viable options, depending on what you want to do. Tim -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Florian Overkamp Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:48 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] MeetMe Video option Citeren "Regovich, Timothy" <timothy_regovich@merck.com>:> 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.Cool, what devices are you using ? Would love to try some :-)> Is there something else that I need to be doing other than set the "v"flag> on my extension for the meetme app?Hmm, don't think that's supported yet ?? -- Met vriendelijke groet, Florian Overkamp ObSimRef BV _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan as Banyu) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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@merck.com> >To: "'asterisk-users@lists.digium.com'" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:07:46 -0500 >Subject: [Asterisk-Users] MeetMe Video option >Reply-To: asterisk-users@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 > >
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@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matt Lawson Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 3:13 PM To: asterisk-users@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@merck.com> >To: "'asterisk-users@lists.digium.com'" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:07:46 -0500 >Subject: [Asterisk-Users] MeetMe Video option >Reply-To: asterisk-users@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 > >_______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan as Banyu) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No, there is no video output once the call goes into a meetme room. What I was talking about is a case where you have a regular video call between 2 video phones, then you try to send them to a conference room. The audio still works but the softphone's (Linphone in our case) behavior is to just freeze the video with the last image it received. I should mention one caveat to my previous suggestion (about just passing through the video with 2 phones or "rotating" through the images) ; I was assuming that all video calls were using the same format. In our case that would be true for the time being. That should be easy to do, just direct the rtp packets to the desired client. If they were using different video formats, you'd have to translate between them.>From: "Regovich, Timothy" <timothy_regovich@merck.com> >To: "'asterisk-users@lists.digium.com'" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> >Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: MeetMe Video option >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:02:55 -0500 >Reply-To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > >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? > > >