Asterisk 1.8 Enable Video Calls

Had a little bit of trouble doing this because I was getting the following error in the Asterisk console:

Ignoring video media offer because port number is zero

Ultimately, the issue was that I needed to add allow=h264 to each user in sip.conf. For some reason, adding the allow=h264 to a context didn’t work; you have to explicitly specify it per user. There’s probably a way to do it for a group of users but this works for me now, on to the next thing! 😉

Here’s my sip.conf:

[general]
videosupport=yes

[some_user1]
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allow=h264

[some_user2]
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allow=h264