Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1345136955.28588.5.camel@zingle> References: <1345136955.28588.5.camel@zingle> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:50:49 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Moving bluetooth plugin to gstreamer From: Joao Paulo Rechi Vita To: =?UTF-8?Q?Tim=2DPhilipp_M=C3=BCller?= Cc: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer , linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, Thiago Sousa Santos Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 16:25 +0300, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote: > > Hi, > >> Since we now have a proper library for SBC codec >> (http://git.kernel.org/?p=bluetooth/sbc.git;a=summary) and its patent >> has expired June 2, 2010. (source: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBC_(codec)), I wonder if it wouldn't be >> a good idea to move the plugin to gstreamer tree? >> >> The plugin has the following elements: >> >> bluetooth: sbcenc: Bluetooth SBC encoder >> bluetooth: sbcdec: Bluetooth SBC decoder >> bluetooth: sbcparse: Bluetooth SBC parser >> bluetooth: avdtpsink: Bluetooth AVDTP sink >> bluetooth: a2dpsink: Bluetooth A2DP sink >> bluetooth: rtpsbcpay: RTP packet payloader > > Sounds like a good idea to me. > > We'd probably add them to gst-plugins-bad first though, since that's > where new plugins are usually added before they get moved to -good or > elsewhere. And probably only to git master (ie. for the upcoming > 0.11/1.0 API version). > > Would the idea be that you'd turn libsbc from noinst into a proper > library, or would we just move that over into the plugin as well? > It will be a shared lib, also used by pulseaudio's bluetooth modules. -- João Paulo Rechi Vita Openbossa Labs - INdT