asterisk users - Jul 2012 - Video conferencing?

Hi, all.  I'm 99% sure that Asterisk technically *supports* 
videoconferencing -- at least, as a conduit -- but are there products 
out there that leverage that?  I've been tasked with bringing 
videoconferencing internal to my company, and had been coming up empty 
looking for standalone solutions, when I suddenly realized that my 
favorite PBX software might be able to help out.

Thanks much for any pointers you might be able to give me,

-Ken

Hi, all.  I see that, with Asterisk 10, there've been some additions with an
eye toward conferencing, and, apparently, hooks for video conferencing. 
Googling like crazy, however, has given me little to go on.  I've been
tasked
with bringing a video conferencing solution in-house, and have yet to find a
decent standalone OSS solution, but I begin to wonder if Asterisk (perhaps in
conjunction with some application?) could do the trick.

If anyone's had any good experiences with (preferably) Asterisk video
conferencing, or (failing that) OSS video conferencing, please let me know.

Thanks much!

-Ken

Apologies for the multiple sends -- I'd been having some outbound SMTP
issues,
and thought the first one had fallen into the ether.  Turned out, it was the
upstream host that was the issue.  Once kicked, lo!

-Ken


On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:24:50 -0400 Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org>
wrote
> Hi, all.  I'm 99% sure that Asterisk technically *supports* 
> videoconferencing -- at least, as a conduit -- but are there products 
> out there that leverage that?  I've been tasked with bringing 
> videoconferencing internal to my company, and had been coming up empty 
> looking for standalone solutions, when I suddenly realized that my 
> favorite PBX software might be able to help out.
> 
> Thanks much for any pointers you might be able to give me,
> 
> -Ken
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> From: "Ken D'Ambrosio" <ken at jots.org>
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:24:50 PM
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Video conferencing?
> 
> Hi, all.  I'm 99% sure that Asterisk technically *supports*
> videoconferencing -- at least, as a conduit -- but are there products
> out there that leverage that?  I've been tasked with bringing
> videoconferencing internal to my company, and had been coming up
> empty
> looking for standalone solutions, when I suddenly realized that my
> favorite PBX software might be able to help out.
> 
> Thanks much for any pointers you might be able to give me,
> 
> -Ken
I haven't used much in the way of video myself, but Asterisk 10 did some
major overhauls to the confbridge application and I believe you can perform
video teleconferencing with basically any SIP device/program that allows
for a video stream, at least as long as it supports one of the video formats
that Asterisk uses (h263 or h264). You could do some basic testing for this
by running a few softphones connected to your Asterisk box. Jitsi does video
calling as does Linphone... though I've personally had some trouble setting
up h264 to work with Linphone. Good luck.

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25.07.2012 22:24, Ken D'Ambrosio ?????:
> Hi, all.  I'm 99% sure that Asterisk technically *supports* 
> videoconferencing
well, confbridge supports sort of videoconferences , but our users 
refused to use them because asterisk switches video in the middle of 
stream and this leads to broken picture. developers refuse to fix this, 
i.e. add switching on i-frame ...