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DiaStar2.0 released by Dialogic Corporation
Mar 12th
Dialogic Corporation yesterday announced the release of DiaStar server version 2.0. its is a open source project sponsored by dialogic corporation, this new release will bring video features from dialogic products to open source / asterisk.
some of the highlighted features are(as per their website)
- Call Progress Analysis (CPA) Enhancements -User-Defined Tone Detection with detection results available in both Asterisk Dialplan and the Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI)
- Robust support of SIP Video from the Asterisk Dialplan, including:
- Play and Record Audio and Video
- H.263 Support
- MPEG4 Support
- Video Transcoding between H.263 and MPEG-4
- Video Transrating
- Video scaling to enable playback of video on different sized video screens
- SIGTRAN signaling support
- Native media bridging
The new features will enable asterisk developers community to utilize DiaStar server to create applications like IVVR system, video surveillance systems, video gateways, mobile advertising, and banking.
further reading: Project DiaStar
Asterisk – VMWare Installation
Nov 8th
i was searching for asterisk vmware image, i found one at virtual appliance market place but the version is very old, so i decided to create virtual image for myself, lets begin:-
download a copy of AsteriskNOW,as iso image
download VMWare Player 3.0, i downloaded from here
open your newly installed VMware Player
select create new virtual machine option.
browse and select iso file where the asterisk iso is saved.
it will show the following error message.
it next window it ask you to select the “guest operating system”, select linux and red hat linux
in next window it will ask for name of your virtual machine, i named it Asterisk and the location where this image can be saved.
go next and select the size for your hard disk(recommended 8GB) – voila it comes to this window
press “enter” installation will proceed.
this how the screen will be like once setup is over.
