Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] ptlib, pulse and "roles"

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> So, I manged to get the HEAD of opal/ptlib/ekiga from yesterday working.
> I was most anxious to have ekiga using pulseaudio effectively and at
> least now, the sound quality is usable and doesn't break up badly.
> 
> But what still appears to be lacking is the concept of what I believe
> the Pulse folks call "roles".  That is, a single application can be
> known to Pulse to have different streams and routed to different devices
> accordingly.
> 
> The most common use-case for this is to have an incoming call ring to
> the device the speakers are connected to yet have the conversation with
> the other party connected to a different audio device, connected, say to
> a headset.  Or that alternate audio device could be a bluetooth headset,
> etc.
> 
> Is any of this in the works?  Maybe it's trivial to add and I can take a
> whack at it myself.

Maybe this help:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572630

There was also a bug to use canberra, but I do not find it anymore...

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Eugen