[Ekiga-list] Query about sharing of physical devices

[Bret Busby <bret busby net>]

Hello.

A question occurred to me, in a conversation with Greg.

Where a person has accounts with more than one softphone access 
provider; eg, I have one with each of Skype, Ekiga and Linphone 
(although, at present, I am not so concerned with continuing use of 
Linphone), and, thence, an Ekiga account, a Skype account, and a 
Linphone account, can the physical devices be shared, so as to enable 
concurrent logins and access to the different accounts, thus allowing a 
user to be simultaneously connected to Skype, Ekiga and Linphone?

> From memory, with some software, for example, audio and/or video 
recordings, trying to run one, while another is running/paused, can lead 
to an error message such as "device is busy", or "device is in use by 
another application, referring to a soundcard, graphics card, speakers, 
etc.

I am curious.

Thank you in anticipation.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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