Re: [Ekiga-list] A comparison ALSA-PULSE (long, addendum)

[Craig Southeren <craigs postincrement com>]

To all

I have just noticed this thread. I wish someone had posted it on the 
Opal list, where Robert and I might have noticed it earlier :)

We are currently planning to add a new audio and video device plugin 
interface to Opal. This new multimedia device interface will be similar 
to the current codec API (allowing plugins to be written without PTLib) 
and will support additional functionality such as:

- support for devices that offer encoded media (such as pre-encoded video)

- support for devices that offer both audio and video.

One of the first plugins I intend to write is a new Pulse audio plugin, 
because Fedora uses pulseaudio by default, and I am sick of audio not 
working without lots of changes :)

I'd welcome comments from anyone on these plans

   Craig

Derek Smithies wrote:
> Hi,
> > > Perhaps it's PTLib underneath it? I really don't know, I'm just throwing
> > > the idea out there!
>
>  It is PTLib which contains the code to read from alsa.
>
> Surely, the ideal is not to go via ALSA, but have ptlib directly talk to 
> pulse. Thus, we need to write a ptlib plugin for pulse audio.
>
> We know how ptlib plugins work. There are example plugins for alsa, esd, 
> oss, sunaudio. The big question is writing a plugin for pulse.
>
> What is involved in writing code that talks directly to pulse ?
> Anyone know example code, or of the pulse api docs?
>
> Please don't refer me to docs which say "just use alsa code". We are 
> using alsa code, and that is why we are having this issue.
>
> Derek.


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