8 Jun
2010
8 Jun
'10
3:25 p.m.
Video is a separate topic. Would like to get into it someday. I refer you to the following example of a conference. This is the type of conference capability I am replicating to FreeSwitch. http://www.conferencecall1.com This type of conference requires an IVR front end to determine the room number and Host identifier. It also requires additional IVR capability to handle the menu enabled by a menu key. One of the features of this conference type is the ability to mute everyone who did not login as a host. I have used several different conference systems and have been working with the RemoteLink conference capabilities for over a year. Recently I spent some time looking at a outside "free" conferencing capability. I really have several primary goals: * Simple conferencing, * Replicate RemoteLink conferencing, * Provide a configurable system that can do even more sophisticated things. In conference types, there could be the capability of having more than two classes of Conferees. I have come up with 5 that seem to fit the range of capabilities desired. * Classes whose members are always allowed to speak. Host/Moderator - Owner of the conference. Assistant - Someone one who can control the conference (not owner). Speaker - Think of this as a panel or a series of speakers. * Class of conferees that can be muted or unmuted by host/assistant control. Guest * Class of conferees that are never allowed to speak Participant I spent some more time looking over the mod_conference code and think that I would like to add two flags: * guest * listener At this time I do not see the need to have mod_conference track the difference between the 3 classes of speakers. Any API that uses “CONF_API_SUB_MEMBER_TARGET” is a potential user of these flags. For example. > To allow the capability to mute/unmute all guests. * mute <confname> mute <[member_id|all|last|guest]> * unmute <confname> mute <[member_id|all|last|guest]> > To allow the capability to deaf/undef all guests and listeners. * deaf <confname> mute <[member_id|all|last|guest|listener]> * undeaf <confname> mute <[member_id|all|last|guest|listener]> > To kick off guests or listeners only leaving the speakers: * kick <confname> mute <[member_id|all|last|guest|listener]> Note: I have found some other surprises in the code that I will address some other time. Regards, David Swardstrom (profile)http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/User:Dswardstrom