[asterisk-dev] New Feature request on Mantis requests your input (6753)

[Joshua Colp]

Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
>> I did indeed. The idea that's been thrown around in the past were 
>> "shims" so you could shimmy (ha ha) your own callback into the stream 
>> between two channels and effect changes on the audio frames. You could 
>> in theory do it by forcing all channels through a signed linear 
>> translation path, and putting the shims in between there so that a 
>> callback always gets signed linear and then the returned frame is the 
>> one actually returned from the translator.
>>
> 
> First of all, I wouldn't put the requirement that shim should take
> linear input. Stream can be customized inside.
> 
> Will there be shims with multiple inputs and outputs that will allow
> channel splitting/collection?
> 
> Isn't shim a channel actually? I am afraid that additional entity will
> complicate things, isn't it better to create channels that are able to
> transform sound frames and connect those channels together instead of
> using shims between channels. Gstreamer for example has pads that can be
> connected according to input/output mime types. I think this model is
> easier to program, understand and setup. 
> 
> 
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Are you talking actual Asterisk channels or just using channel as a term?

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