Re: [Linphone-users] Re: feature request: alternative ring audio device

[Jesse D. Guardiani]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:31 +0200, Simon Morlat wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Arg...
> I've done big changes yesterday in the soundcard selection topic, in order to 
> be able to choose different devices for playback and capture... So now your 
> patch really conflicts with the code I've written...
> Anyway I 'll rewrite it.

You'll rewrite the patch or the code? I don't mind downloading a newer
version of your code and refactoring the patch myself. After all, a lot
of that patch code could be broken off into a separate function and
cleaned up. I have a lot of ideas for it. I just wanted to get something
working quickly first. Let me know how you'd like to proceed. Tommorrow
is the weekend for me, so tommorrow and the next day will be my coding
days.


> Your mail has been retained for approval by the mailing list system because 
> the patch was too big; that's why it took time to be spread to members.  
> Sorry for that.

Yeah, I noticed that. Would you prefer that I gzip patches over 40kb
from now on? Different projects have different preferences for things
like that...


> Simon 
> 
> Le Lundi 18 Avril 2005 07:42, Jesse Guardiani a écrit :
> > Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm now using linphone 1.0.1 with my Bluetooth Logitech Mobile
> > > Freedom Headset via bluez with a D-Link DBT 120 USB
> > > Bluetooth adapter, and it works quite well! I'm rather
> > > surprised how well it works, actually.
> > >
> > > The problems I've had with linphone and ALSA + DMIX + DSNOOP
> > > + ASYM don't really apply in this configuration, because
> > > the Bluez ALSA modules create their own mixer device. Since
> > > it's a bluetooth headset, I really don't plan to use it for
> > > anything but SIP phone calls, so I really don't mind dedicating
> > > it to linphone.
> > >
> > > However, it's not real comfortable to wear the headset constantly.
> > > It would be really nice if linphone had a write-only alternative ring
> > > audio device, like gnomemeeting. That way, the headset would ring,
> > > but my laptop speakers could also ring. So I wouldn't have to be
> > > wearing the headset constantly. I could just put it on when I hear
> > > the laptop ring.
> > >
> > > Just a thought. Thanks for reading!
> >
> > Hey, finally I had a chance to do some coding myself. Please see
> > below for a diff that adds very ugly, basic, rough alternate
> > ring device support to linphone 1.0.1.
> >
> > I hope to clean this patch up in the coming days/weeks, so please
> > don't take the code seriously. I was just trying to get something
> > working first before I make it pretty. But I'd appreciate it if
> > anyone interested could test the basic functionality and let me
> > know if it works for them. I've been using it with an ALSA
> > bluetooth mixer device as the primary audio device, and the
> > regular ALSA mixer as the alternate ring device. It works for me!
> >
> > Thanks!

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