OSS Video Conference solution?

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Fri Jul 27 11:26:23 EDT 2012


"Ken D'Ambrosio" <ken at jots.org> writes:
>
> > >> Hey, guys.  I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution
> > >
> > > If I say "Jabber/XMPP", "SIP", or "H.232"; or "Ekiga", "Pidgin", "Empathy",
> > > or "Jitsi"..., does it mean that I've misunderstood the question?
> > 
> >   I expect so, given that at least a couple of those are not video
> > conferencing solutions, and no further information is provided on any
> > of them.
>
> Well, in his defense, they are clients that *can* be used for various
> conference-type applications.

And almost all of them are cross platform. I guess Empathy isn't
(so maybe I should have included MS NetMeeting to balance it out...).

> But the piece he's missing -- which I implied but didn't state, so
> it's kinda my fault -- are the words "server side."

Ejabberd?

Asterisk? You mentioned that right up front:

> I'd love to leverage Asterisk, which, since 10.x, has the
> underpinnings for videoconferencing, but I don't see anything (OSS)
> that takes advantage of it.

Hence my suggesting Ekiga & Jitsi.

Now I must be misunderstanding "takes advantage".

I've never used Asterisk, so I guess I'm really just looking to learn
enough to be able to follow the conversation you guys are having.

I had this image in my head of "videoconferencing" as something like:

  Asterisk server <---> Internet cloud <---> Ekiga client

or:

  ejabberd server <---> Internet cloud <---> Pidgin client


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