[pulseaudio-discuss] How to check audio sample data to a bluetooth sink?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lin, Mengdong at 29/05/11 04:39 did gyre and gimble:
> Great thanks, Arun!
> 
>> You can also connect to the monitor source of the sink to capture
>> the actual data.
> 
> I saw a Bluetooth monitor source of the sink. But I don't know how to
> use it. Do you mean that I can move the GTalk sink input stream's to
> that *monitor source*? And where can I get the captured data? And how
> can I verify the data is ok?

No, you cannot move a sink input to a source. Sink inputs are Output
Streams and Sources are input devices.

A monitor source is just a device that you can record from (just like a
mic). It will contain the same data that is playing on the device.


> In addition, if a Bluetooth HSP sink is connected to 2 sink input
> streams, how does the bluetooth sink handle different audio formats
> such as sampling frequency? How the two steams is mixed, in which
> component? Eg. one sink input is 44100HZ stereo (music player) and
> the other is 16000HZ mono (Gtalk)? I have this question because if I
> connect music player's input to the BT HSP sink at the same time, I
> can hear the music but GTalk keeps quiet.

As said on the other thread, it should be resampled and then mixed.
That's certainly how other sinks work and I don't think the bluetooth
one is any different (but I don't know the code that well).

Col



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