On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 17:14 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > No. PA does not allow you to connect the JACK and the BT sinks/sources > directly. Sorry. > > Also, this doesn't make much sense anyway. JACK is for audio > production. A2DP/BT is certainly completely unsuitable for audio > production. It's a spec that is amazingly simple-minded -- it lacks > any kind of timing synchronization.<snipped here> I agree, but simple 'home-level' audio production may certainly be done on a Pulse-enabled machine, and not being able to use my Bluetooth headphones for that would be a bit of a bother. I saw the other code contribution concerning bluetooth source and your comment on direct source-to-sink, so I guess eventually Pulse will be able to do that. I know, patches welcome, if my skill level gets there I'd be more than happy to =). > > Good question. I only made sure the code works fine with the headsets > I personally possess. As I heard it seems to work fine on many > headsets, but then again we also have at least one report in the BTS > where things don't work (though I assume that is more related to the > faulty dongle than to a faulty headset): > > http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/612 > > I am pretty sure the Nokians have done a bit more testing with various > headsets, they might know better. Given that the amount of patches > regarding the BT stuff coming from them is not as big as it used to be > I'd interpolate that PA's BT support is pretty good now... ;-) > > Lennart > This is very good to know. Thank you. Dongles are not a concern to me personally as I'm on a laptop with built-in and fully-functional (as far as I can tell) bluetooth.
