asterisk users - Apr 2011 - The new ConfBridge application is now in Asterisk Trunk!

Howdy,

I am proud to announce that after a good bit of development, community feedback,
testing, and code review, the brand new ConfBridge application has been
officially merged into Asterisk Trunk!!!
http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=revision&revision=314598

If you are already familiar with ConfBridge from Asterisk 1.6.X and 1.8, forget
everything you know.  This is a completely revamped, highly optimized, and
feature rich conferencing application capable of mixing sample rates from 8khz
all the way up to 192khz!  Exciting right?!  So Go! use it, test it, and report
back!  Tell us what you like, what you don't like, if you want a feature
that doesn't yet exist, and report bugs.  This conferencing application has
huge potential and we need community feedback.  Asterisk 1.10 isn't that far
away, and once it is branched adding new functionality to this application may
not be possible, so start using it now!

To help get you started, Malcolm Davenport has written some fantastic
documentation on the asterisk.org wiki.  It can be found below.
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/ConfBridge+1.10

New conference join and leave sounds have been created for this application, but
will not be available officially until the next sounds release.  If you can not
wait until then you can find them attached to this issue,
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=19165.

If you start using the ConfBridge application and find that you are interested
in writing a new feature for it, feel free to use me as a resource by email or
IRC.  I'm happy to review your code and anything else I can to do make this
application successful.

Thanks!

-- 
David Vossel
Digium, Inc. | Software Developer, Open Source Software
445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org
The_Boy_Wonder in #asterisk-dev

> To help get you started, Malcolm Davenport has written some fantastic
> documentation on the asterisk.org wiki.  It can be found below.
I've looked at this documentation, but can't find the documentation the
realtime interface, which is needed in order to schedule conferences in
the future.  Is the documentation missing or is this not part of the
application?  We depend on it HEAVILY.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:38 AM, David Vossel <dvossel at digium.com>
wrote:
> I am proud to announce that after a good bit of development, community
feedback, testing, and >code review, the brand new ConfBridge application has
been officially merged into Asterisk >Trunk!!!
http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=revision&revision=314598
>
> If you are already familiar with ConfBridge from Asterisk 1.6.X and 1.8,
forget everything you >know. ?This is a completely revamped, highly
optimized, and feature rich conferencing >application capable of mixing
sample rates from 8khz all the way up to 192khz! ?Exciting right?!
So way back when the 'old' ConfBridge was announced, my understanding
was it was originally an internal Digium tool for exercising the
Bridge() code and it was decided to release it to the public in the
event the code might be useful to others. The old ConfBridge was
missing stuff that was in MeetMe(), and wasn't that compelling for my
particular usage.

This 'new' ConfBridge looks to be much more full-featured. So can
anybody explain the motivation for this? Is this a replacement for
MeetMe() where at a certain point we envision dropping MeetMe() from
the codebase?

Does ConfBridge() scale to many users as nicely as MeetMe? I'm
assuming the MeetMe ability to use a hardware source for timing will
still be superior with large user counts in rooms?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Paul Belanger <pabelanger at digium.com>
wrote:
> On 11-04-25 10:49 AM, David Backeberg wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:40 AM, C. Savinovich
>> <c.savinovich at itntelecom.com> ?wrote:
>>>
>>> Does this ConfBridge requires a hardware timing source?
>>
>> No, and neither does MeetMe with modern DAHDI.
>>
> This is the issue the OP was referencing. ?MeetMe depends on DAHDI, which
is
> not easily installable in at VM or cloud environment. ConfBridge() does
not.
>
> --
> Paul Belanger
> Digium, Inc. | Software Developer
> twitter: pabelanger | IRC: pabelanger (Freenode)
> Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org

Meetme works well under Linux KVM and there is an open task about the
minimum install here: https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18467

-- 
~~~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama at gmail.com ~~~

On 4/25/2011 9:38 AM, David Vossel wrote:
 > If you are already familiar with ConfBridge from Asterisk 1.6.X and
 > 1.8, forget everything you know.  This is a completely revamped,
 > highly optimized, and feature rich conferencing application capable

Can you give a quick lesson on how to use ConfBridge with app_page ?

then i could disable meetme & dahdi_dummy all together.


-- 

Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net./