On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:27 AM, David Backeberg <dbackeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:38 AM, David Vossel <dvos...@digium.com> wrote: >> I am proud to announce that after a good bit of development, community >> feedback, testing, and >code review, the brand new ConfBridge application >> has been officially merged into Asterisk >Trunk!!! >> http://svnview.digium.com/svn/asterisk?view=revision&revision=314598 >> >> If you are already familiar with ConfBridge from Asterisk 1.6.X and 1.8, >> forget everything you >know. This is a completely revamped, highly >> optimized, and feature rich conferencing >application capable of mixing >> sample rates from 8khz all the way up to 192khz! Exciting right?! > > So way back when the 'old' ConfBridge was announced, my understanding > was it was originally an internal Digium tool for exercising the > Bridge() code and it was decided to release it to the public in the > event the code might be useful to others. The old ConfBridge was > missing stuff that was in MeetMe(), and wasn't that compelling for my > particular usage. > > This 'new' ConfBridge looks to be much more full-featured. So can > anybody explain the motivation for this? Is this a replacement for > MeetMe() where at a certain point we envision dropping MeetMe() from > the codebase? > > Does ConfBridge() scale to many users as nicely as MeetMe? I'm > assuming the MeetMe ability to use a hardware source for timing will > still be superior with large user counts in rooms?
David B. The driving force was most likely HD audio in conferencing. -- ~~~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lath...@gmail.com ~~~ -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
