[Ekiga-list] Alsa device enumeration

[Alec Leamas <leamas alec gmail com>]

There are  some problems w the current code which enumerates the alsa 
devices. I have a sketch for a patch, this is really not that 
complicated these days, there are new library routines which support it.

The problem is just what devices to show, and how. Basically, there is 
two kind of devices: the classic devices which we partly see today, and 
several "new" devices such as pulse, hdmi, and several surround*. They 
exist for both capture and playback. The list for my box is below. The 
basic ideas are stolen from Skype. The important thing is the left 
column, the right is just internal stuff (hey, use a fixed font to see 
this...). 

Any thoughts out there about this list?


Cheers!

--alec

Capture devices:

null                          null                    
default                       default                 
pulse                         pulse                   
AD198x Analog - hw:0,0        hw:0,0                  
AD198x Analog - plughw:0,0    plughw:0,0              
AD198x Digital - hw:0,1       hw:0,1                  
AD198x Digital - plughw:0,1   plughw:0,1              

Playback devices:

iec958 - NVidia,0             iec958                  
null                          null                    
default                       default                 
pulse                         pulse                   
AD198x Analog - hw:0,0        hw:0,0                  
AD198x Analog - plughw:0,0    plughw:0,0              
AD198x Digital - hw:0,1       hw:0,1                  
AD198x Digital - plughw:0,1   plughw:0,1              
surround40 - NVidia,0         surround40              
surround41 - NVidia,0         surround41              
surround50 - NVidia,0         surround50              
surround51 - NVidia,0         surround51              
surround71 - NVidia,0         surround71              
front - NVidia,0              front