[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio and Bluetooth

[João Paulo Rechi Vita]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 17.04.09 13:04, tim redfern (pd at eclectronics.org) wrote:
>
>> Is there any way for pulseaudio to act as a bluetooth sink rather than
>> to play to a bluetooth device? (pardon if this has already been
>> discussed)
>>
>> I've a feeling the a2dp sink profile doesnt exist yet in linux..?
>
> AFAIR BlueZ accepeted a GSoC project for adding this to bluez and pa.
>

Depends on what exactly you mean by AD2P sink profile.

If you mean to be able to stream sound from computer to a headset,
Lennart is right, I've left this working on the end of GSoC08,
although automatic detection of devices didn't have a good level of
usability (meaning that lot's of things had to be done manually). I
haven't worked anymore with that because of lack of time (got a
scholarship to go abroad), but I'm always planning to get back to work
with that, what I think it's going to happen sometime next semester.

If you mean the device acting as a sink, what means the computer
receiving sound from a device, than Tim is right, there is still no
support for that on BlueZ. But it's a project for GSoC09 and hopefully
there will be a student working with that this year.

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João Paulo Rechi Vita
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