On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 22:39 -0600, Russell Bryant wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I just had a thought about this, perhaps it would make more sense to make Asterisk use Jack (http://jackaudio.org/) as the interface for transferring audio to Pd. It's a common standard, it runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, is alpha on Windows. It would allow Asterisk to interface with a wide range of audio apps that support Jack. AFAIK, you can dynamically allocate and deallocate jack "channels". There is already some support for managing the jack channels in Pd, and I don't think it would be too hard to support.
So the idea would be that for each call that is sent to Pd, it would open up a jack channel and notify Pd about it. The question there is whether Jack can support hundreds or thousands of channels.
Yeah, I really do like the Jack idea. I think this is going to be the way to go. Now that I'm looking at it, I'm really quite surprised that nobody has already written a Jack interface in Asterisk. So, I guess this is where I'll start.
Thanks for the pointers. :)
a colleague from school once created a setup that involved asterisk and pd (i don't know, why he's actually not responding to this thread....). he ran asterisk over oss2jack in order to use jack to establish an audio connection between them. if asterisk would directly have access to jack, that would be awsome of course.
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