[FFmpeg-user] FFMpeg and H.323

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Am Di., 17. März 2020 um 16:20 Uhr schrieb Simon Brown
<simon.k.brown at gmail.com>:
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> > Hi,
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> > > Is it possible for ffmpeg to produce a stream conforming to H.323?  As I
> > > understand it H.323 supports H.264 video and G.711 or OPUS audio.  I have
> > > an H.264 video stream, so would need to re-encode the audio, but then it
> > > needs packaging as H.323 and I haven't found anything on the web that
> > > does this yet.
> >
> > I’m not surprised, H.323 covers infrastructure at a scope that is on a
> > different level than ffmpeg, or any other single application for that
> > matter.
> >
> > Since it’s not a single standard I don’t really know what to say it
> > supports, but it stipulates all endpoint (terminal) equipment be capable of
> > both G.711 as a minimum, and H.261 if it has video capability. Any
> > additional codec support is H.245 negotiated by connecting equipment. H.264
> > is commonly implemented, as well as speex (which I think you mean when you
> > say opus) but neither capability is required.
> >
> > Can you tell us more about the situation where you need to encode AV
> > streams usable in a H.323 system out of band? There isn’t really a
> > “packaging” step to speak of, and If you are creating a software based
> > implementation the most ffmpeg is going to be of help to you is RTP. H.323
> > is more of a protocol than format.
> >
> > Speaking generally, I guess you could say ffmpeg can produce a stream that
> > conforms to H.323, (by encoding mu-law/a-law and optionally H.261 and using
> > RTP) but anything else is going to depend on (all) the equipment
> > facilitating session communication.

> Many thanks for your quick reply.
> I thought H.323 was a packaging a bit like HLS might be, or Fragmented
> MP4.  The hope is to be able to integrate a camera system generating H.264
> into Zoom and other web-conferencing systems which require H.323 to work.
>
> So what you're saying is I'd need to generate my own communications handler
> that manages the H.323 traffic, and passing the H.264 stream to that
> handler to pass on to the endpoint?

At least some of the "communication" can be done by libavformat but
nothing in FFmpeg is (by itself) a videoconferencing software.

Carl Eugen