Why not build it on top of ffmpeg (like linphone or ekiga) and take advantage of the codecs it already supports?
They have a FAQ about patents: http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html

    I'm just asking because video transcoding is expensive and, unfortunately, H.26x are the standard codecs for the video industry.

    Regards,

    Paulo R. Panhoto.

On 3/9/2010 11:11, Paulo Vicentini wrote:
"there are thousands of IP problems when it comes to video encoding" 
That is why I am supposed to use http://www.theora.org/

PS,  IP: Intellectual Property
 
Paulo


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Seven Du <dujinfang@gmail.com> wrote:
What do you mean IP problems?

2010/9/3 João Mesquita <jmesquita@freeswitch.org>:
> That would be an amazing contribution.
> The biggest problem here is that there's no endpoint module on FS that
> currently supports video. Since FSComm is completely relying on FS's
> capabilities, I turn the question to FS module developers. If I recall
> correctly, there are thousands of IP problems when it comes to video
> encoding and that's an area no one is really willing to dive in right now...
> Regards,
> João Mesquita
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Paulo Vicentini <vicentini.paulo@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> There is no video support in the moment
>> I intend to add video probably using theora codec
>> Paulo
>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:35 AM, rentmycoder rentmycoder
>> <rentmycoder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does FSComm support video calls, inf no are there any plans for it?
>>> If yes, what codecs does it support?
>>>
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