Return-Path: Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] more encoder stuff From: Marcel Holtmann To: BlueZ Mailing List Cc: bmidgley@xmission.com In-Reply-To: <41A56774.1000308@xmission.com> References: <41A56774.1000308@xmission.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1101362539.7538.61.camel@pegasus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: bluez-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Reply-To: bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: BlueZ development List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:02:19 +0100 Hi Brad, > It was fantastic listening to my headset on the bus today. I didn't have > to deal with the bluetake dongle at all... very nice. I updated the a2play program to detect my buggy Aiptek headphone and activate the non specification conform use of SBC audio. Actually I did changes at many places in the code, because the parameter sets of some functions had to be changed. And I also cleaned up some mess that was generated by Lindent. > What should I be using if I want to encode live from the computer's > line-in? (I want to see if encoding on the computer results in shorter > latency than the bluetake dongle. Watching TV with the headset is > currently not all that fun because of the delay.) Maybe something like this might work: arecord -f cd -t au /dev/stdout | sbcenc - | a2play - > We should get Sonorix to send us a headset for testing. Have you had > much luck with vendor cooperation, Marcel? Right now in a2play we sort > of assume the headset will only report one codec and I suspect they > support mp3 natively. (It's possible they are pulling tricks like > transcoding into SBC before uploading mp3's to the headset's flash > memory I guess.) In the past I only talked to Aiptek and they won't send me a headphone for free and so I finally bought one by myself. Right now I think that I also need the Bluetake headphone, but I don't like to buy another one by myself. The Sonorix and also the Logitech (sold as HP model for iPAQs at the moment) are two other interesting headphones. In general it is no problem for the companies to donate a bunch of their devices, but you need to talk to right people. As you might have seen on the BlueZ page there are some friendly companies. They have no problems in giving away their hardware to developers for free. http://www.bluez.org/sponsors.html May you simply try to contact Sonorix and put me on CC. If they care about Linux and Bluetooth they should really know my name. And I think we need actually three of these headphones. One for each of us. Another way is if people like our work they may donate some money or buy one of these devices and send it to us. Anyone feel free to contact me by private email about this. To answer your MP3 question, I don't know. At the moment I don't expect any headphones with more than one codec or even with more than one SEID. The biggest problem might be that the MP3 codec is not license free, but SBC is. The total cost calculations for software and hardware (including the firmware) are different. Regards Marcel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Bluez-devel mailing list Bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-devel