[Vcon] Re: vCon core issue #3A unused recording channels

[Scott Godin <[e-mail]>]

I'll +1 that idea.  No issues with that approach I can see.

Scott

On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM Dan Petrie <[e-mail]> wrote:

> This is the simplest of the 4 issues:
>  A) If you have more channels in the recording than parties, how do you
> label the party for the unused channels?
>
> I propose that as is currently specified you have an array of parties in
> the recording Dialog Object that must be equal to the number of channels in
> the recording.  If there are channels that are not used and do not
> correlate to a party, then we use null in the party array.  So a 4 channel
> recording with nothing in the 2nd and 4th channel we might have a Dialog
> Object with a party array of: [0, null, 2, null]
>
> Does anyone have an alterative suggestion or does this seem reasonable?
>
> Along with this, I plan to add text to describe the other option of
> starting a new recording every time the number of channels changes or
> increase.  Which also shares the continuity problem of issue #3D where we loose
> the continuity of where a call begins or ends as its not clear how many
> calls occurred. To be discussed in a separate thread.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>