Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: drivers/telephony and winmodems | Date | Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:18:46 -0500 (EST) |
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> Given that telephony device is nothing but soundcard with few more > functions, and slightly obscure format, why is not drivers/telephony > more similar to drivers/audio?
Mostly because the telephony cards that do audio tend to be fixed buffer sizes and codecs doing hardware enode/decode.
> It gives sense to splay -d /dev/telephony0 /big/something.mp3, it > gives sense to record sounds from telephony line with exactly same > software you grab from soundcard. Yes, ixj is able to do fancy things > like DTMF detection in hardware, but don't expect that from DSP-less > winmodems. (And I'd expect winmodems to go just into > drivers/telephony, or not?)
Probably. I would like to see telephony cards that can do plain raw 8/16bit samples also support the OSS API too. It seems only reasonable to be able to open a telephomny device and attach ibm viavoice to it for example
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