[Ekiga-list] call recording / ekiga too tightly on ALSA?

[Craig Southeren]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:01:57 +0200
Viktor <Cato_Minor at arcor.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I read the "call recording" thread three days ago with great interest,
> as I'm crawling the net how to do this for some hours now. I see various
> possibilities, however no one has worked for me. Attention, this is a
> longer posting ;-)
> 
> (1) vsound (using Ekiga with OSS)

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> (2) Direct recording from the ALSA system

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> (3) Sniffing the VoIP packets

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> (4) JACK

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There is another way (and to me, much simpler way) to record Ekiga calls,
which is to use the OPAL library (upon which Ekiga is based).

See the H323Connection::OnStartLogicalChannel function in OPAL to see
how to insert a filter that can capture the raw audio stream

   Craig

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