[Freeswitch-users] Video conferencing in freeswitch

[David A. Horner]

Thanks Anthony,  I'd really like to help... just need to figure out
what exactly to implement to make it nice.....

I could write a packetizer and video capture piece.... but I'd much
rather stand on the work of VLC.
They've already got a solution for creating a RTP video stream for
publishing the data....and a decoder/viewer piece as well.
(cross platform too)

I'm not sure the best way to implement it, but first I'd like to
simply have the conference forward the video VLC RTP streams of the
connected users.
Maybe add functionality in the conference...and possibly pa to accommodate this.

For the pa module, allow the user to set a remote RTP video address
for publication to video conferences.
Then the conference would have to get these RTP addresses and publish
them to the other users.

Another module could be written to watch for these addresses as they
are published and spawn VLC viewing sessions.
(crude, but it would work....maybe also in pa?)

This of course would mean all video traffic would be out of
band....and handled entirely by VLC.
Maybe there would be a way for freeswitch to read from the VLC RTP
stream and integrate that RTP stream into the RTP stream existing.

Thoughts anyways.

--Dave
http://dave.thehorners.com/

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Anthony Minessale
<anthony.minessale at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you know how to write packetizer code it would be a welcome addition to
> the codebase.
> Right now mod_conference send the video of whomever it believes has the
> floor to everyone else.
> (ie who is talking the most in the last few sec)
>
> We welcome your input and code contributions toward more video support.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>>
>> Eyebeam works well on mod_conference as does the grandstream video phones.
>> /b
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2008, at 10:33 PM, David A. Horner wrote:
>>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> So I've been thinking about how to get video conferencing going with
>> freeswitch.
>> When I first started, I was thinking about developing a video capture
>> module for freeswitch....though then I'd have to write custom RTP
>> packetizer/depacketizer...
>>
>> VLC already provides network RTP streams of video data....like
>> webcams.  I hear that the freeswitch conference currently supports
>> video sip clients now, however, I don't yet own one to test with.
>>
>> Could someone leverage the current features in freeswitch to use a VLC
>> network RTP stream?
>>
>> I guess the thing that is missing is something to broadcast the video
>> stream urls to each of the conference participants and start the vlc
>> streaming/viewing automatically.
>>
>> Anyways, just thoughts....
>>
>> --Dave
>> http://dave.thehorners.com/
>>
>> Brian West
>> sip:brian at freeswitch.org
>>
>>
>>
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