[Linphone-users] linphone cannot use ALSA "default" device

[Anders Kaseorg]

Currently linphone presents you with a list of ALSA soundcards to choose 
from. However, this makes it impossible to select ALSA virtual devices, 
such as "default".

Note that "default" does not necessarily map to an actual soundcard. For 
example, it may map to a dmix/dsnoop device that does software mixing to 
let multiple programs play and record concurrently, or a softvol device 
that does software volume control. Recent Fedora releases are configured 
this way automatically when there is no hardware support for these features.

There needs to be an option, selected by default, to use ALSA device 
"default". It would potentially be convenient for some users if you 
could specify an arbitrary device name, but "default" covers the vast 
majority of cases.

Anders