[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v13 10/10] bluetooth: policy: Treat bi-directional A2DP profiles as suitable for VOIP

[Pali Rohár]

On Thursday 17 October 2019 15:52:00 Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-10-08 at 18:29 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Automatic SBC profile is not going to be changed. It is there to support
> > all devices without any tweaks. ValdikSS already did more tests and
> > there are devices which do not work with higher SBC bitpool. So
> > increasing max value of bitpool in Automatic SBC profile would lead to
> > broken support for these devices and therefore regressions.
> > 
> > As Automatic SBC profile is the only one available for systems where
> > codec switching is not supported, it would mean complete regression as
> > these devices completely stops working on those systems.
> > 
> > Upgrading either pulseaudio or bluez must not lead to problem that some
> > bluetooth devices stop working (if they worked before upgrade).
> > 
> > So no, there would not be any changes in Automatic SBC profile. This one
> > should stay untouched, to make it always working with all existing
> > devices without any regression.
> 
> I wasn't aware that advertising the XQ settings during negotiation
> breaks some devices. I guess this means that JP Guillaume's SBC XQ
> patch can't be accepted, assuming that we value avoiding regressions
> more than the improved quality for most headsets?

In this patch series I'm reworking and proposing also XQ profiles at
separate endpoints. So in case XQ is broken for paricular device, with
codec switching API, user would be able to switch back to automatic SBC
profile (on different SEP) which should stay as it is in current
version, which is working with all devices.

> Here's that patch: 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/merge_requests/177
> 

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Pali Rohár
pali.rohar at gmail.com