On Sun, 16.08.09 22:52, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee at gmail.com) wrote: > > 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 =). Given that Jo?o Paulo's A2DP source support is coming which to be really useful needs this interconnection module I am quite sure I'll be cooking something up very soon. > > 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. With dongle I meant all kind of bt transciever module. Not just those built with a USB connector. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
