[pulseaudio-discuss] Audio output on Bluetooth headset is choppy - PulseAudio at fault?

[Alexander Skwar]

Hello.

Am 09.09.2011 15:35, schrieb Colin Guthrie:
> 'Twas brillig, and Alexander Skwar at 09/09/11 11:18 did gyre and gimble:

>>    paplay -d bluez_sink.00_1A_7D_60_67_1F \
>>      /usr/share/sounds/linphone/rings/oldphone.wav
>>
>> So it's (maybe?) not really Amaroks fault which causes these problems.
>> It's also not related to oldphone.wav - I've double checked this *G*
>
> hehe, I would potentially blame the Phonon backend (which you don't

Well, I said KDE 4.6, so I kinda said Phonon, I guess :

> OpenSuse) but if paplay is being weird too, then I'll concede it's not
> necessarily to blame!

Yep. I didn't want to go here or elsewhere with only such a hard tool
like Amarok at my hands showing that something's wrong. Thus I was VERY
happy to find out, that paplay also has problems.

>> Why is it skipping?
>
> Good question!

Yeah, isn't it? ;)

>> ask at ewzw032:/tmp>  id
>> uid=1000(ask) gid=100(users)
>> Gruppen=100(users),3(sys),7(lp),10(wheel),17(audio),33(video),40(games),115(vboxusers)
>
> It's off topic here (these don't really matter for bluetooth), but why
> is your user in the lp, audio and video groups? None of this is
> necessary on a vaguely modern system. I don't know what sys or games
> groups relate to but I can't think what they would acheive.

'coz I've always done it like this ;) That's why.

> Back on topic, the issue can often be down to a broken bluetooth
> receiver - they are a bit funny overall.

It's new equipment - which of course does not mean, that it's not
broken ;)

Forgot to mention - I would NOT assume the headset to be broken. When
I pair it with my Nexus S Andrid mobile phone or with my OS X notebook
at home, playback is just fine.

> But I'll let our resident BT export answer when he gets a chance as
> he'll know much better than me! Over to you Luiz!! :)

Let's see, what he's got to say ;-)

Alexander
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