Moving bluetooth plugin to gstreamer

[Joao Paulo Rechi Vita]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 16:25 +0300, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Since we now have a proper library for SBC codec
>> (http://git.kernel.org/?p=bluetooth/sbc.git;a=summary) and its patent
>> has expired June 2, 2010. (source:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBC_(codec)), I wonder if it wouldn't be
>> a good idea to move the plugin to gstreamer tree?
>>
>> The plugin has the following elements:
>>
>> bluetooth:  sbcenc: Bluetooth SBC encoder
>> bluetooth:  sbcdec: Bluetooth SBC decoder
>> bluetooth:  sbcparse: Bluetooth SBC parser
>> bluetooth:  avdtpsink: Bluetooth AVDTP sink
>> bluetooth:  a2dpsink: Bluetooth A2DP sink
>> bluetooth:  rtpsbcpay: RTP packet payloader
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me.
>
> We'd probably add them to gst-plugins-bad first though, since that's
> where new plugins are usually added before they get moved to -good or
> elsewhere. And probably only to git master (ie. for the upcoming
> 0.11/1.0 API version).
>
> Would the idea be that you'd turn libsbc from noinst into a proper
> library, or would we just move that over into the plugin as well?
>

It will be a shared lib, also used by pulseaudio's bluetooth modules.

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João Paulo Rechi Vita
Openbossa Labs - INdT