[linux-audio-dev] crazy idea...

[Stephen Hassard]

Hey Lee,

I was thinking about this a little bit and it's probably easier than it 
sounds.

I thought that Alsa already supported MC97 based AMR modems? It looks 
like it does with the SND_INTEL8X0M module ..

Also, you wouldn't have to worry about injecting stuff into the 
networking layer since modems are just character devices in linux.

The only real part would be the DSP stuff. Their might be some other 
projects to do this kind of stuff already ..

later,
Steve

Lee Revell wrote:
> I had the idea the other day that you could theoretically implement a
> Winmodem driver as a JACK client.  All you would need is an ALSA driver
> that exposes the hardware part of the modem as a sound card, a mechanism
> to inject the resulting bits back into the kernel networking layer, and
> the DSP knowledge to implement a software modem...
> 
> This is almost completely pointless, but might be an interesting CS
> project.
> 
> Lee
>