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I just merged a new channel driver into Asterisk trunk which will be in Asterisk 1.6.  The module is called chan_console.  It is a new console channel driver which uses portaudio as a cross platform audio interface instead of using something like ALSA or OSS directly.  I wrote it to give myself a console channel [...]

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I have a branch that is ready for testing that makes some significant changes to the Asterisk channel handling core.  The changes improve the data structure management for Asterisk channels.  This will provide a large performance benefit.  See the following post to the asterisk-dev mailing list for more information, as well as where to get [...]

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Asterisk trunk recently got a pretty cool new feature. You can now use Asterisk as a highly configurable video soft phone. The commit to trunk is here.
The way it works is pretty neat. Asterisk already had a couple of console channel drivers: chan_oss and chan_alsa. These channel drivers allow you to [...]

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