[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio and Bluetooth

[João Paulo Rechi Vita]

2009/4/18 João Paulo Rechi Vita <joao.vita at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>

Forgot to mention, AFAIK this module is being maintained by BlueZ people.


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