On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 11:14 AM Steve Davies <davies...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > So I've chosen to post this in -dev in case someone manages to come up > with a pointer to an existing patch, because if not I imagine I will do the > work and submit it myself. Advice, corrections and opinions are most > welcome. > > I noticed that 'res_monitor' is flagged as deprecated on the basis that > 'app_mixmonitor' supports all the same features, and this led me down a > rat-hole which I hope to dig my way out of... > > - I need to record in- and out- channels separately so I can mix to a > stereo file (YES) > - I need to pause and un-pause (NO) > - Solution: do a stop and start/append instead (YES) > - I only want to mix at the very end of the bridge/call (NO) > - The automon feature should also be deprecated or merged with automixmon > (?) > > I believe that the simplest solution to all of the above it to add a > pause/unpause feature to app_mixmonitor, and extend 'struct > ast_mixmonitor_methods' to allow broad support for an optional pause and > unpause operation. This would then be implemented by simply pausing whether > or not we write to the relevant filehandles. The audiohook itself would > continue until stopped. > > Perhaps there is good reason why this has not been done before? If so, > please let me know before I go too far :) > I'm not aware of any real reasons why it hasn't been done, except noone taking the time to do so or running into that functionality or getting around it in a different way. I think deprecating automon is fine, although we don't really have a good ability to deprecate such things except to state it. They don't have support levels and other things like modules. -- Joshua C. Colp Digium - A Sangoma Company | Senior Software Developer 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - US Check us out at: www.sangoma.com & www.asterisk.org
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