[pulseaudio-discuss] a2dpd stuttering and my experience thus far

[Jeff]

RE: 
http://www.mail-archive.com/pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de/msg00578.html

Its been a long time since I've posted to a listserve, so be patient 
with me please...

I've been using my HT820 headphones for several months now with alsa and 
a2dpd. I used Ubuntu Edgy Eft for a while then moved on to Gutsy, but 
kept the Eft as a backup - solely because a2dpd was working perfectly 
therein. Now the newer kernel that came with Gutsy tripped up the 
playback to produce some stuttering, but it has mostly worked out of the 
system.

I wanted to point out that if you have any other bluetooth device that 
the system is seeking or is connected to like a mouse, then you will 
have very choppy sound due to bandwidth issues. I understand the BT 
takes all the bandwidth on one adapter to produce the quality stereo 
sound.... I found a simple method to work around that issue... 2 BT 
adapters!! I use the internal one on the laptop with the BT headphones 
and connect a nice little USB model for the mouse.

I first pair the mouse with internal BT turned off... Then pair the 
headphones with internal BT on... I can power up and issue my a2dpd as 
root... I use several config files and start the one I want ... say one 
for audacious or xmms. I have not worked that out exact enough to make 
it simple, but it is easy enough to do. If you want more info, examples 
of my files, etc. just ask. So anyways, I start the file... "sudo a2dpd 
-o -b -d -f /home/user/.a2aud " if i want to monitor what is happening. 
I still get the error of "ring buffer full" and such with some streams, 
but again... stuff like pause, fwd, rev and stop work....

I would love to have this just be an option in my kmix or gnome mixer... 
I do have a volume control, but I have to start the command as above or 
I get nothing on the phones....

Looking forward to any info you guys can provide... Also saw that Fedora 
8 will come with pulseaudio out of the box.!!  That is great news.

Jeff (aka nomasteryoda)
Jeff <<AT>> mgalug DOT org