Integrating BBB with 3rd Party Video Conferencing Solution with SIP and H.323

[Paul Lukandwa]

Dear All, we are looking to Integrate BBB with a 3rd party Video Conf system that supports SIP and H.323. I'm sure the SIP will integrate through the FREESWITCH, however for the video stream, what areas should we look at for integration. In practice, a scenario could be someone calling into BBB or connecting through the Video conference system and getting an audio and video stream.

Thanks in advance

Paul

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Paul,

Currently, the audio and video in BigBlueButton follow two separate paths. We use red5 for relaying and recording the video streams (including the desktop sharing).  We use FreeSWITCH for mixing and recording the audio.

For connecting the video stream, you would need to pull out the stream from red5 (so users coming in through H.323 could see the BigBlueButton users) and injecting a stream into red5 (so BigBlueButton users could see users coming in through H.323).

Essentially, the best solution would be to integrate BigBlueButton with H.323 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.323).

To our knowledge, no one has attempted this integration.   From the perspective of the core developers, there have always been higher priorities (such as record and playback, HTML5 client, etc).

Regards,... Fred

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Paul

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