[App_rpt-users] usbradio similar driver with non usb

[Ramesh Dhami (VA3UV)]

Tony Langdon, VK3JED wrote:
> At 04:56 AM 12/9/2009, hwstar at rodgers.sdcoxmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Although sound cards and IRLP interfaces are what folks have, and 
>> these folks don't want to invest in a whole new radio interface due 
>> to the added costs, the developers feel that this is too much of a 
>> burden on them and therefore have no inclination to open up support 
>> for every sound card out there.
> 
> As there is already software which supports sound cards and IRLP 
> boards (and a bunch of Echolink interfaces), such as thelinkbox, 
> perhaps improving the integration batween Asterisk and this sort of 
> software would be worth doing.  I'd certainly like to be able to 
> integrate Asterisk smoothly with my linkbox based systems.  The 
> chan_rtpdir driver went a long way to doing this, but it had a few 
> limitations, like being stuck with the GSM codec.
> 
<-- Hi Tony! - chan_rtpdir supports ulaw; I believe it was updated many 
moons ago.

Ramesh.