[asterisk-dev] Associating IAX2 audio frames with a particular call?

[Dan Mills]

On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 11:47 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> 
> > Now, another telephony question, does anyone have some good ASRC code
> > out there? 
> > I have the audio interface running at one rate and the telephony bit
> > running at another (and they are not phase locked), so some buffering
> > and clever resampling will be needed, but the delay locked control loop
> > is giving me fits at the moment.  
> 
> Libsamplerate gets, I gather, mixed reviews.  Is it on point?

Libsamplerate is fine as far as it goes, but I have two essentially
asynchronous processes (The telephony operating at 8Khz sr, and
delivering 160 samples nominally every 20ms), and the output system
running at 44.1, 48 or whatever delivering 128, 256, 512.... or whatever
power of two samples at whatever rate the sound card clock is actually
running at. 

The problem is deriving what the real ratio is so that the resampler can
be setup correctly (And this ratio is time varying). It is essentially a
control theory problem and is more then a little hairy. 

I am sort of tempted to first resample the telephony to the nominal
output rate, then stick that into a ring buffer. Then as part of the
jackd callback (which should be low jitter) run a servo loop to resample
a second time by a ratio that is almost (but probably not exactly 1.0),
so as to avoid over or under run, but it feels horribly inelegant. 

So far I have not seen the source for a softphone that I consider to
really get this right (Most use masking to fill in for underrun or just
drop frames to compensate for overrun, that wont fly for this
application). 

Regards, Dan.