Video conference

"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 ...

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