Re: [Linphone-developers] liblinphone: Ringtone from config and sound device

[Simon Morlat]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedbacks.
This item is on the TODO list.
My preference would be that linphone lists all pcm devices that are defined in 
~/.asoundrc, so that the user can retrieve its customized device.
I think there should be a way in libasound to list the pcm devices rather than 
the soundcards (as mediastreamer2 does).
What do you think ?

Simon

Le Wednesday 31 October 2007 16:43:24 Radu Cristescu, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Somewhere between Linphone 1.3.5 and 1.5.1 there were two regressions
> (that I found so far), one about the ringtone, and one about the sound
> device to use for playback and ringing.
>
> For the ringtone, I made a simple patch (see attachment - hopefully the
> list accepts it). This bug is present in 1.5.1 and 1.7.1 equally. The
> patch is against the latest 1.7.1 source from the Linphone website.
>
> Something similar to this should be made for the ringback sound, which
> currently can't be changed, even though there is a config option for it.
>
> The other issue is about the sound device to use. In 1.3.5 there was a
> "alsadev" config option. Since 1.5.1 that option is gone and as far as I
> see it was replaced with something called mediastreamer, which is
> configured using the playback_dev_id, ringer_dev_id and capture_dev_id
> options. Now, compared to the "alsadev" option in 1.3.5, the
> mediastreamer is extremely limited when it comes to selecting the sound
> device. Here's what I want to do and can't: play the sound through
> S/PDIF instead of Stereo. Since mediastreamer associates "ALSA: default
> device" with plughw:0, and spdif is, well "spdif", I can't use linphone
> through S/PDIF without modifying the code. Even more, I created my own
> "asym_spdif" ALSA device like so:
>
> /etc/asound:
> ----------------- CUT -----------------
> pcm_slave.convert48k {
>     pcm "spdif"
>     rate 48000
> }
>
> pcm.spdif_playback {
>     type plug
>     slave convert48k
> }
>
> pcm.asym_spdif {
>     type asym
>     playback.pcm "spdif_playback"
>     capture.pcm "plughw:0"
> }
> ----------------- CUT -----------------
>
> and with 1.3.5 I used the alsadev option like this:
> "alsadev=asym_spdif". Since the alsadev option is gone and mediastreamer
> is not smart enough for my needs, I can't do this.
>
> Now I'm not too much of a fan of complaining and more of a fan of
> writing code to fix the behavior and make the application do what I
> need, but I need some advice before I start implementing anything and
> submitting a patch for it. How would you do it?
>
> Options:
> 1. Modify mediastreamer (there is a lot of modifying to do if taking
> this approach)
> 2. Add the alsadev option back and make it override the values for
> playback_dev_id, ringer_dev_id and capture_dev_id.
> 3. Add extended alternatives to the playback_dev_id, ringer_dev_id and
> capture_dev_id options, possibly called alsa_playback_dev,
> alsa_ringer_dev and alsa_capture_dev, for people that can't write
> asound.conf files like I did.
> 4. Implement both options 2 and 3, all options operating on the same
> values, but alsadev would set playback, ringer and capture devices
> together, while the others set these values independently, and the user
> would use whatever suits his needs best.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Obviously, I'm not taking into account anything about the GTK
> application. I'm only interested in liblinphone as a backend. :)
>
> Radu