[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v5 0/7] New API for Bluetooth A2DP codecs

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz]

Hi Pali,
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 7:19 PM Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think that this patch series is now ready for review and testing. All
> needed parts are finished.
>
> The only problem is with asynchronous profile switching as function
> pa_card_set_profile() does not support it. All details are in patch
> "[PATCH v5 5/7] bluetooth: Modular API for A2DP codecs".
>
> So can you look at this patch series and review it?

I tested this today, it seems to work fine with sbc but with
faststream there seems to be some problem somewhere as it does seems
to consume too much cpu time. Regarding set_profile that is something
I think we will need to address otherwise the UI is pretty much
useless to switch as it doesn't seems to react well when -EAGAIN is
returned, we could perhaps block on SetConfiguration since we do block
on Acquire anyway, or you have already tried that?

Another thing I noticed, we should start taking into accound the
algorithm delay of each codec instead of adding a fixed delay of 25
ms, in fact 25 ms seems wrong even for SBC since it has about 5 ms of
delay not 25 ms.

I will do a proper review of each patch tomorrow, but for a user point
of view I thing these details matter the most.

> On Saturday 19 January 2019 18:11:49 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > This is 5th version of my patch series for modular A2DP codec API and
> > aptX support. The only change for v5 is support for switching codecs.
> >
> > This patch series provides new modular API for Bluetooth A2DP codecs,
> > clean up module-bluez5-device and bluez5-util to be codec independent
> > and convert SBC codec into this new API for A2DP codecs. Also it adds
> > support for aptX, aptX HD and FastStream A2DP codecs.
> >
> > New codec API is designed in way, that for adding new codec is not
> > needed to touch bluez5-util nor module-bluez5-device files. Whole
> > codec registration is done in a2dp-codec-util.c file, without need
> > to update any header file.
> >
> > Some A2DP codecs are bidirectional and support backchannel for
> > microphone voice. This new A2DP codec API fully supports this feature
> > and module-bluez5-device was extended to support microphone voice source
> > for codecs which declares such support. FastStream is such codec.
> >
> > For every A2DP codec is created card profile. When using bluez patches
> > from https://marc.info/?l=linux-bluetooth&m=154696260401673&w=2 then
> > only those profiles codec profiles are created which are supported
> > by remote headset/endpoint.
> >
> > With this new modular API it should be easy to add other codec support
> > like MP3, AAC or LDAC.
> >
> > API is designed also for ability to register "more variants" or one
> > A2DP codec. E.g. SBC codec forced to high quality, SBC codec forced
> > to low quality, SBC codec with automatic quality.
> >
> > Once we agree on final version of codec API, I can prepare patches
> > also for choosing above SBC codec quality.
> >
> > I tested playback with SBC, aptX and FastStream codecs and it is
> > working fine. Also microphone voice in FastStream is working and has
> > slightly better quality as in HSP profile.
> >
> > Changes in v5:
> > * Added support for switching between A2DP codec via profiles.
> >   This requires bluez patches from above link.
> >
> > Changes in v4:
> > * Added support for aptX HD codec
> > * Changed codec API for reading block size and reducing encoder bitrate
> > * Added support for microphone backchannel into module-bluez5-device
> > * Added support for microphone backchannel into FastStream codec
> > * Fixed parsing FastStream A2DP config buffer
> > * Fixed validation for config buffers
> > * Fixed calculating block size for aptX codec
> > * Fixed resetting SBC and FastStream codecs
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> > * Fixed problems pointed by Tanu
> >
> > Pali Rohár (7):
> >   switch-on-port-available: Fix null pointer dereference
> >   bluetooth: policy: Remove BlueZ 4 related code
> >   bluetooth: policy: Reflect a2dp profile names
> >   bluetooth: Update a2dp-codecs.h from upstream bluez project
> >   bluetooth: Modular API for A2DP codecs
> >   bluetooth: Add A2DP aptX and aptX HD codecs support
> >   bluetooth: Add A2DP FastStream codec support
> >
> >  configure.ac                                    |  36 +
> >  src/Makefile.am                                 |  20 +-
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-api.h          |  80 +++
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-aptx.c         | 547 +++++++++++++++
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-faststream.c   | 433 ++++++++++++
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-sbc.c          | 638 +++++++++++++++++
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-util.c         |  66 ++
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-util.h         |  34 +
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codecs.h             | 354 +++++++++-
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/bluez5-util.c             | 768 +++++++++++++-------
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/bluez5-util.h             |  40 +-
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/module-bluetooth-policy.c |  19 +-
> >  src/modules/bluetooth/module-bluez5-device.c    | 884 +++++++++++-------------
> >  src/modules/module-switch-on-port-available.c   |   2 +-
> >  14 files changed, 3181 insertions(+), 740 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-api.h
> >  create mode 100644 src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-aptx.c
> >  create mode 100644 src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-faststream.c
> >  create mode 100644 src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-sbc.c
> >  create mode 100644 src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-util.c
> >  create mode 100644 src/modules/bluetooth/a2dp-codec-util.h
>
> --
> Pali Rohár
> pali.rohar at gmail.com



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Luiz Augusto von Dentz