Jelle de Jong wrote: > event wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 15:33, Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> event wrote: >>>> On 2009-01-09, event <event.riga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> On 2009-01-07, Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> event wrote: >>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:07, Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> Jelle de Jong wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Hello everybody, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I have been periodically trying to get multiple audio sources to play >>>>>>>>>> together (dmixing) to a hifi bluetooth speaker system or hifi >>>>>>>>>> bluetooth >>>>>>>>>> headset. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I am using only alsa and no pulseaudio, esd, jack, mas of something >>>>>>>>>> else >>>>>>>>>> just alsa with asoundrc configuration files and no graphical >>>>>>>>>> environment. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Can somebody show me an example asoundrc config file to make it >>>>>>>>>> possible >>>>>>>>>> to use software audio mixing with my bluetooth devices. If this is >>>>>>>>>> currently not possible, please tell why and what we can do about it. I >>>>>>>>>> am willing to donate some payal money to the person providing me with >>>>>>>>>> a >>>>>>>>>> working asoundrc configuration file that allows me to play multiple >>>>>>>>>> audio sources at the same time. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Jelle >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Bumping up this mail, I would really like to see a solution for my >>>>>>>>> problem or receive information why the problem is not possible not >>>>>>>>> solvable? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance for any help, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Jelle >>>>>>>> Bump for the mail, I still have this issue, and would really appreciate >>>>>>>> somebody taking a look at. I don't know if there is code limitation or >>>>>>>> that it is just a asoundrc configuration issue. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Please help, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Jelle >>>>>>> Hello Jelle, >>>>>>> could you please provide more details: >>>>>>> 1. what happen when you play from two sources simultaneously? >>>>>>> 2. what happen if you play only one source? >>>>>>> 3. please provide your asoundrc (at least the pcm.bluetooth part) >>>>>>> 4. does it work fine with other output device? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Vale, >>>>>>> event >>>>>> Thank you for responding, I had reattached the configurations and >>>>>> outputs with some more info. I have already spent a bloody awful lot of >>>>>> time on testing with trial and error. I am not an alsa or bluetooth >>>>>> developer I cannot get it to work. If a capable person could get it >>>>>> working I would be very great full. >>>>>> >>>>>> I am also not able to get bluetooth working without adding a sound card >>>>>> to my system, so i put in a usb sound dongle just to get bluetooth with >>>>>> alsa working, alsa won't load its modules without it first finding a >>>>>> soundcard. It is all very very confusing. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance for any help, >>>>>> >>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Jelle >>>>>> >>>>> Hello Jelle, >>>>> >>>>> I will setup the environment and do some tries as well. I'll come back >>>>> to you when some outcome will be available >>>>> >>>>> Vale, >>>>> Leonid Movshovich >>>>> >>>> Hello Jelle, >>>> >>>> You need to setup a passkey agent (for bluez 3.x) for connection to >>>> succeed. I've attached one simple >>>> >>>> For dmix setups you have to define slaves as "pcm_slave." not "pcm." >>>> is .asoundrc >>>> >>>> Hope this helps. >>>> >>>> Vale, >>>> Leonid Movshovich >>>> >>> Thank you Leonid for responding. I gave it a good try again, with trial >>> and error with all kind of variations of the different asoundrc files I >>> attached in my previous mails. I am unable to get it working with two >>> audio streams to one bluetooth devices (mixing). >>> >>> I ended up with lots of messages like "Unknown field pcm_slave". Could >>> you please post a complete asoundrc file that has been tested to work >>> with two speaker-test -c2 programs running beside each other? >>> >>> Just to be clear, I have no problem getting my bluetooth audio device to >>> work with single audio streams, I would like to have mixing support >>> working so I can play multiple audio sources at the same time. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> Jelle >>> >> Hi Jelle, > >> I've digged there a bit and found out the following: >> 1. you cannot use dmix over bluetooth as bluetooth is implemented as a >> plugin but dmix works with cards only >> 2. bluetooth itself doesn't do mixing > >> so dmix is not a thing which could help you here, but... >> I have one crazy idea for you :) >> you can try to setup alsa jACK plugin and then setup jACK to use your >> alsa bluetooth device. Thus if jACK supports mixing itself (which most >> probably the truth) the whole setup should work as you want. >> Unfortunately, I don't have jACK installed so cannot give it a try. > >> Vale, >> Leonid Movshovich > > Thank you Leonid for confirming my issues getting mixing to work with > alsa and bluetooth. > > I don't really like jack or pulseaudio, and would like to stick with > alsa a while more until all the bugs, usability, and performance issues > are gone. I do not feel like going into there issues in this mail, > because the mail would get 4 pages long, please search with google for > "pulseaudio broken" and find some answers. > > My real question is, what would it take to fix the alsa plugin to make > it possible to use streaming. Maybe bluetooth devices should work as > cards... this would also solve the problem that I cant use bluetooth > without a dummy usb soundcard insert into my system. Alsa would not > start without finding a soundcard... > > Is somebody willing to take a look at the alsa system for bluetooth? > What would resources or rewards would you like to fix it? > > Best regards, > > Jelle Hello everybody, I am popping up this email again, I would really like to see this issue fixed, would somebody be willing to take a look at it? Best regards, Jelle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
