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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook
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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

by Gerardo Barajas Puente
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setting up video calls

To allow our IP-PBX to display a video during a call, we must add the default codecs for video support and configure the extensions to support video. In this section, we will show the steps for enabling video calls.

How to do it…

  1. To add video support to our Elastix box, we must edit the file sip_general_custom.conf in the PBX | Tools | Asterisk File Editor menu by adding the following information:
    videosupport=yes
    maxcallbitrate=384
    allow=h261
    allow=h263
    allow=h263p
    allow=h264
  2. Add the video codec declarative in the extension configuration options by using the PBX | PBX Configuration | Extensions menu. This step is shown in the next screenshot:
  3. Finally, we can call another extension with video support as shown in the next image. ...
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