From the lack of information about video calls in the documentation (notably no mention of any video codecs), I infer that VOIP.MS does not support video calls. That’s not an issue for me, but I am curious as to how video calls can be made at all.
The software I have been using, MicroSip, comes in an audio only version and a video capable version. Today I tried the video enabled version, just to see what would happen, and, not surpringly, the connection is refused with “not acceptable here”.
So how do people actually make video calls? TIA for any related information…
Video calls are currently not supported. Our service offers voice communication only, as video codecs are not supported from our end. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you.
Thanks for the confirmation. I’ve checked quite a few other voip service providers, and they don’t support video calls, either, so I am wondering why so many softphones include that functionality if it cannot be used in the real world…
(note this question is the top google result for “voip.ms video chat”)
I would like a standardized way to take video calls through my DID and not have to setup meetings using 3rd party non-standard applications like skype, zoom, teams and others.
But is this really even possible ?
Could two persons, using different voip providers, video call each other by calling each other’s DID number ? Or would that only work on a case-by-case basis where each voip provider has to make it work with every other voip provider, one at a time ? (In other words no)
Is it just time to abandon DID phone numbers entirely and just have voip users connect to my internet hostname instead ?
