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160 lines
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--- VIDEO CONSOLE SUPPORT IN ASTERISK ---
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Some console drivers (at the moment chan_oss.so) can be built with
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support for sending and receiving video. In order to have this
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working you need to perform the following steps:
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+++ Enable building the video_console support +++
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The simplest way to do it is add this one line to channels/Makefile:
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chan_oss.so: _ASTCFLAGS+=-DHAVE_VIDEO_CONSOLE
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+++ Install prerequisite packages +++
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The video_console support relies on the presence of SDL, SDL_image
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and ffmpeg libraries, and of course on the availability of X11
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On Linux, these are supplied by
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libncurses-dev,
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libsdl1.2-dev, libsdl-image1.2-dev
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libavcodec-dev, libswcale-dev
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On FreeBSD, you need the following ports:
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multimedia/ffmpeg (2007.10.04)
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devel/sdl12 graphics/sdl_image
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+++ Build and install asterisk with all the above +++
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Make sure you do a 'make clean' and run configure again after you
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have installed the required packages, to make sure that the required
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pieces are found.
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Check that chan_oss.so is generated and correctly installed.
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+++ Update configuration files +++
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Video support requires explicit configuration as described below:
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== oss.conf ==
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You need to set various parameters for video console, the easiest
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way is to uncomment the following line in oss.conf by removing the
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leading ';'
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;[general](+,my_video,skin2)
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You also need to manually copy the two files
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images/kpad2.jpg images/font.png
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into the places specified in oss.conf, which in the sample are set to
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keypad = /tmp/kpad2.jpg
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keypad_font = /tmp/font.png
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other configuration parameters are described in oss.conf.sample
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== sip.conf ==
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To actually run a call using SIP (the same probably applies to iax.conf)
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you need to enable video support as following
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[general](+)
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videosupport=yes
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allow=h263 ; this or other video formats
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allow=h263p ; this or other video formats
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you can add other video formats e.g. h261, h264, mpeg if they are
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supported by your version of libavcodec.
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+++ RUN THE PROGRAM +++
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run asterisk in console mode e.g. asterisk -vdc
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If video console support has been successfully compiled in, then
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you will see the "console startgui" command available on the CLI`
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interface. Run the command, and you should see a window like this:
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http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/asterisk_video_console.jpg
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To exit from this window, in the console run "console stopgui".
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If you want to start a video call, you need to configure your dialplan
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so that you can reach (or be reachable) by a peer who can support video.
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Once done, a video call is the same as an ordinary call:
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"console dial ...", "console answer", "console hangup" all work the same.
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To use the GUI, and also configure video sources, see the next section.
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+++ VIDEO SOURCES +++
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Video sources are declared with the "videodevice=..." lines in oss.conf
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where the ... is the name of a device (e.g. /dev/video0 ...) or a
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string starting with X11 which identifies one instance of an X11 grabber.
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You can have up to 9 sources, displayed in thumbnails in the gui, and
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select which one to transmit, possibly using Picture-in-Picture.
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For webcams, the only control you have is the image size and frame
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rate (which at the moment is the same for all video sources).
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X11 grabbers capture a region of the X11 screen (it can contain
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anything, even a live video) and use it as the source.
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The position of the grab region can be configured using the GUI below
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independently for each video source.
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The actual video sent to the remote side is the device selected as
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"primary" (with the mouse, see below), possibly with a small
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'Picture-in-Picture' of the "secondary" device (all selectable
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with the mouse).
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+++ GUI COMMANDS AND VIDEO SOURCES +++
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(most of the text below is taken from channels/console_gui.c)
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The GUI is made of 4 areas: remote video on the left, local video
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on the right, keypad with all controls and text windows in the
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center, and source device thumbnails on the top. The top row is
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not displayed if no devices are specified in the config file.
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________________________________________________________________
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| ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ |
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| | tn.1 | | tn.2 | | tn.3 | | tn.4 | | tn.5 | | tn.6 | | tn.7 | |
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| |______| |______| |______| |______| |______| |______| |______| |
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| ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ |
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| |______| |______| |______| |______| |______| |______| |______| |
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| _________________ __________________ _________________ |
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| | remote video | | | | local video | |
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| | | | | | ______ | |
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| | | | keypad | | | PIP || |
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| | | | | | |______|| |
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| |_________________| | | |_________________| |
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| |__________________| |
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|________________________________________________________________|
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The central section is built using an image (jpg, png, maybe gif too)
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for the skin and other GUI elements. Comments embedded in the image
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indicate to what function each area is mapped to.
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Another image (png with transparency) is used for the font.
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Mouse and keyboard events are detected on the whole surface, and
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handled differently according to their location:
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- center/right click on the local/remote window are used to resize
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the corresponding window;
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- clicks on the thumbnail start/stop sources and select them as
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primary or secondary video sources;
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- drag on the local video window are used to move the captured
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area (in the case of X11 grabber) or the picture-in-picture position;
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- keystrokes on the keypad are mapped to the corresponding key;
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keystrokes are used as keypad functions, or as text input
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if we are in text-input mode.
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- drag on some keypad areas (sliders etc.) are mapped to the
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corresponding functions (mute/unmute audio and video,
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enable/disable Picture-in-Picture, freeze the incoming video,
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dial numbers, pick up or hang up a call, ...)
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
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--- $Id $---
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