SIP video calls support with asterisk - please help! - Page 2 - maemo.org

jolouis | # 11 | 2009-02-06, 18:15 | Report

UTStarcomm, that was the other brand! Yea, agreed, they're pretty horrible as well. As far as desktop SIP phones, I don't know of any in a reasonable price range that support SIP video calling (I think some of th higher end Cisco ones do, but you're talking BIG money there, and I've never used anything beyond the 2/4 line desktop sets from them so no idea how difficult they are to setup/etc, especially for video). I agree in that a standalone desktop type phone is often better for certain types of people... so if anyone has any good experiences with a reasonably priced standalone SIP video phone, I too would be interested!

stangri | # 12 | 2009-02-06, 20:00 | Report

Found it: http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5873204559.html
Anyone has experience with these devices?
thanks!

PS. There're also DLink and Greandstream standalone video-phones which go for about US $220-$300 (although, afaik they don't have the WiFi option), if you've had experience with any of these please also share.

Last edited by stangri; 2009-02-06 at 20:24.

kuki | # 13 | 2010-08-09, 11:45 | Report

Originally Posted by jolouis View Post

Okay, first important step that you've got there is to make sure that in the global context "videosupport=yes" is set. You need to make sure that you have the right codecs enabled for each user though, as the users over-ride the global settings context.

So for example, in your users.conf file if you were extension 6000, you'd have an entry like this:

Code:

[6000]
username = 6000
transfer = yes
mailbox = 6000
call-limit = 100
fullname = Tablet
registersip = no
host = dynamic
callgroup = 1
context = DLPN_DialPlan1
cid_number = 6000
hasvoicemail = yes
vmsecret = 1234
email =
threewaycalling = no
hasdirectory = no
callwaiting = no
hasmanager = no
hasagent = no
hassip = yes
hasiax = yes
secret = 1234
nat = yes
canreinvite = no
dtmfmode = rfc2833
insecure = no
pickupgroup = 1
autoprov = no
label =
macaddress =
linenumber = 1
disallow = all
allow = g729,gsm,ulaw,alaw,h263

Notice the last two lines: disallow = all, which is there by default. Then allow, which overrides it, specifying which codecs this user can support; the key for video is h263.
You also need to make sure that your asterisk was compiled with H263 support. To do this, connect to your asterisk box:

asterisk -r

then enter the command:
core show codecs

And you should get a list of all the codecs your build supports:

Code:

Disclaimer: this command is for informational purposes only.
        It does not indicate anything about your configuration.
        INT    BINARY        HEX   TYPE       NAME   DESC
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          1 (1 <<  0)      (0x1)  audio       g723   (G.723.1)
          2 (1 <<  1)      (0x2)  audio        gsm   (GSM)
          4 (1 <<  2)      (0x4)  audio       ulaw   (G.711 u-law)
          8 (1 <<  3)      (0x8)  audio       alaw   (G.711 A-law)
         16 (1 <<  4)     (0x10)  audio   g726aal2   (G.726 AAL2)
         32 (1 <<  5)     (0x20)  audio      adpcm   (ADPCM)
         64 (1 <<  6)     (0x40)  audio       slin   (16 bit Signed Linear PCM)
        128 (1 <<  7)     (0x80)  audio      lpc10   (LPC10)
        256 (1 <<  8)    (0x100)  audio       g729   (G.729A)
        512 (1 <<  9)    (0x200)  audio      speex   (SpeeX)
       1024 (1 << 10)    (0x400)  audio       ilbc   (iLBC)
       2048 (1 << 11)    (0x800)  audio       g726   (G.726 RFC3551)
       4096 (1 << 12)   (0x1000)  audio       g722   (G722)
      65536 (1 << 16)  (0x10000)  image       jpeg   (JPEG image)
     131072 (1 << 17)  (0x20000)  image        png   (PNG image)
     262144 (1 << 18)  (0x40000)  video       h261   (H.261 Video)
     524288 (1 << 19)  (0x80000)  video       h263   (H.263 Video)
    1048576 (1 << 20) (0x100000)  video      h263p   (H.263+ Video)
    2097152 (1 << 21) (0x200000)  video       h264   (H.264 Video)

H263 is the important one for video on the tablets.

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
-Rob

hi, i am kuki and i need your help about enabling video in asterisk.
here is my sip.conf:

[general]
videosupport=yes

[1000]
type=friend
context=incoming
host=dynamic
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
allow=alaw
allow=gsm
allow=h263
dtmfmode=rfc2833
canreinvite=no

[1003]
type=friend
context=incoming
host=dynamic
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
allow=alaw
allow=gsm
allow=h263
allow=h263p
dtmfmode=rfc2833
canreinvite=no

and my extensions.conf is:

[globals]
leif=SIP/1003
kuki2=SIP/1000

[incoming]

exten => 1003,1,Dial(${leif},20)
exten => 1003,n,Playback(vm-nobodyavail)
exten => 1003,n,Hangup()

exten => 1000,1,Dial(${kuki2},20)
exten => 1000,n,Playback(vm-nobodyavail)
exten => 1000,n,Hangup()

i can send/receive voice between 1000 and 1003, but when i push send video button nothing happend. My softphone is x-lite 4.0 beta2 (i download it from here http://www.brothersoft.com/x-lite-95889.html)

My asterisk is asterisk-1.4.33.1

please if you have some idea help me

thank you in advance

SamuraiZack | # 14 | 2010-08-09, 23:17 | Report

Originally Posted by kuki View Post

hi, i am kuki and i need your help about enabling video in asterisk.
here is my sip.conf:

[general]
videosupport=yes

[1000]
type=friend
context=incoming
host=dynamic
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
allow=alaw
allow=gsm
allow=h263
dtmfmode=rfc2833
canreinvite=no

[1003]
type=friend
context=incoming
host=dynamic
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
allow=alaw
allow=gsm
allow=h263
allow=h263p
dtmfmode=rfc2833
canreinvite=no

and my extensions.conf is:

[globals]
leif=SIP/1003
kuki2=SIP/1000

[incoming]

exten => 1003,1,Dial(${leif},20)
exten => 1003,n,Playback(vm-nobodyavail)
exten => 1003,n,Hangup()

exten => 1000,1,Dial(${kuki2},20)
exten => 1000,n,Playback(vm-nobodyavail)
exten => 1000,n,Hangup()

i can send/receive voice between 1000 and 1003, but when i push send video button nothing happend. My softphone is x-lite 4.0 beta2 (i download it from here http://www.brothersoft.com/x-lite-95889.html)

My asterisk is asterisk-1.4.33.1

please if you have some idea help me

thank you in advance

I'm too also having this problem. Any help would be great! Thanks! Everything is the same as Kuki except for my Asterisk version being 1.6.2.8.

Thanks again!

quipper8 | # 15 | 2010-08-09, 23:38 | Report

limit it to one codec for audio and one codec for video

ulaw
h263

i see in you 1003 you also have h263p set. asterisk can't really negotiagte video codecs or transcode between codecs out of the box. there are patches out there though.

SamuraiZack | # 16 | 2010-08-10, 16:35 | Report

Originally Posted by quipper8 View Post

limit it to one codec for audio and one codec for video

ulaw
h263

i see in you 1003 you also have h263p set. asterisk can't really negotiagte video codecs or transcode between codecs out of the box. there are patches out there though.

Hey quipper,

I've changed the codec for audio and video to only one codec so my sip.conf looks like this for my peers:

[1004]
type=friend
callerid="Android G2" <1004>
context=phones
host=dynamic
disallow=all
allow=gsm
allow=ulaw
allow=h263p
dtmfmode=rfc2833

[1008]
type=friend
callerid="Android N1" <1008>
context=phones
host=dynamic
disallow=all
allow=gsm
allow=ulaw
allow=h263p
dtmfmode=rfc2833

My video codec has to be h263p as Sipdroid only support h263p. What patches are you talking about? I'm still new to this whole asterisk thing but I feel like I'm missing something very simple.

I also would like to say that I am able to see the video from the same phone as if using like a normal camera but I am not able to receive the video sent from another phone. This problem might be different from Kuki's but I believe it might be the same fix.

Thanks for all the help! I very much appreciate it!

Last edited by SamuraiZack; 2010-08-10 at 16:40.

quipper8 | # 17 | 2010-08-11, 00:03 | Report

Originally Posted by SamuraiZack View Post

My video codec has to be h263p as Sipdroid only support h263p. What patches are you talking about? I'm still new to this whole asterisk thing but I feel like I'm missing something very simple.

oh, I didn't know sipdroid was available for maemo

Maybe you can try the sipdroid folks or one of the android forums...

anyway, don't know if this has been incorporated into your asterisk version or not

https://issues.asterisk.org/bug_view...bug_id=0003709

h263+ pass-through support

kuki | # 18 | 2010-08-15, 12:54 | Report

from http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+video
In asterisk 1.6, a general overhaul of video support for channels was planned but no precise technical direction was set. Some would like to simply merge videocaps and build on it. Some may have more ambituous plans.

kuki | # 19 | 2010-08-15, 12:57 | Report

install asterisk 1.4.x it works perfectly

sahadevan511 | # 20 | 2011-03-16, 13:16 | Report

Originally Posted by SamuraiZack View Post

Hey quipper,

I've changed the codec for audio and video to only one codec so my sip.conf looks like this for my peers:

[1004]
type=friend
callerid="Android G2" <1004>
context=phones
host=dynamic
disallow=all
allow=gsm
allow=ulaw
allow=h263p
dtmfmode=rfc2833

[1008]
type=friend
callerid="Android N1" <1008>
context=phones
host=dynamic
disallow=all
allow=gsm
allow=ulaw
allow=h263p
dtmfmode=rfc2833

My video codec has to be h263p as Sipdroid only support h263p. What patches are you talking about? I'm still new to this whole asterisk thing but I feel like I'm missing something very simple.

I also would like to say that I am able to see the video from the same phone as if using like a normal camera but I am not able to receive the video sent from another phone. This problem might be different from Kuki's but I believe it might be the same fix.

Thanks for all the help! I very much appreciate it!

Hi i too have the same problem now . How do u rectified it?

help me pls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111