Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Hp bluetooth headset a2dp
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:58:18 +0100

Hi Shawn,

> I have a pair of these headphones too, at work.  (My job involves a
> cellphone media player application which depends on being able to
> stream A2DP.)  There are a lot of them on ebay, going for 83.99USD,
> just search for "ipaq headphones".

they are more expensive here in Germany. The cheapest I found was for
around 112 EUR.

>   My impression is that they did a
> pretty decent job of implementing A2DP on the headphones, but with the
> iPAQ drivers that they ship, the audio quality is not that great.  They
> sound much better when streaming audio to them from a PC that has the
> BlueSoleil Windows stack installed.  (So far the only A2DP
> implementation for Windows that I've been able to get my hands on.) 

The Impulsesoft BluePC should also work and AVM showed their A2DP plans
at CeBIT.

> I'd love to be able to stream to them from Linux.  :-)

Me too. And especially direct and transparent through ALSA.

> I also have the Aiptek and Bluetake ones.  I just noticed that so much
> activity with A2DP has been happening while I was not paying attention,
> so I will try to do some testing.

The Aiptek is not conforming to the specification. However the SBC over
RFCOMM is a nice feature.

Regards

Marcel


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