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Published inJul 2016
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ISBN-139781784398880
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Darren Schreiber
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Darren Schreiber

Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
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"There's only two ways of doing things. The right way and FreeSWITCH's way. And they're both the same." (adapted quote, John Turturro, Mac, 1992)

In a breakthrough at ClueCon 2015 in Chicago Illinois, FreeSWITCH's creator Anthony Minessale II announced support for video transcoding, mixing, manipulation, and Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) functionality.

FreeSWITCH now has the most advanced and mature video conferencing features:

  • Multiple video codecs support and transcoding

  • Multiple video layouts

  • Screen splits

  • Picture in picture

  • Screen sharing

  • Video superimposing (captions, logos, and so on)

  • Video mixing

  • Video effects and real-time manipulation

Video conference configuration

Video conferences in FreeSWITCH are just normal conferences with "something more".

They're defined and invoked exactly the same way as an audio-only conference as far as conference.conf.xml and dialplan. Actually, an audio-only conference is a video conference where no participants happen to request or send a video...

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Authors (8)

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Darren Schreiber

Darren Schreiber is the CEO and Co-founder of 2600 Hz. He began working heavily in open source voice with the FreeSWITCH project, where he engaged with Brian, Mike, and Anthony. His projects have since evolved into two enterprise VoIP platforms that allow a multitude of development of voice, SMS, and video applications to be delivered to customers.He has 15 years of voice and IT experience including developing multiple enterprise SaaS infrastructures for hosting and remotely managing IT, voice, and e-commerce services. He is a guest lecturer at major universities on VoIP technology and leads paid international VoIP trainings. As a serious telephony enthusiast since a young age, he has worked extensively with VoIP technologies. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer Science and Business Management.He is also a co-author of FreeSWITCH Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
Read more about Darren Schreiber