Return-Path: Message-ID: <20050523121022.83208.qmail@web8307.mail.in.yahoo.com> From: Mayank Batra Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Broadcast A2DP To: bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 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: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:10:22 +0100 (BST) Marcel, > > > Is it possible to develop an application, that > will > > broadcast a2dp stream to more than 1 sink? > > it will be possible. > > > What I want to know is that whether sufficient > > bandwidth will be there or not? > > I think it is not and besides this you might get > into problems if you > create a scatternet. Most headphones I have seen > require to be a master > of a piconet. Thus means that the source will create > a scatternet and > the link manager must use hold mode to switch > between both piconets. In > all my tests this was not working very good. Consider the simple case, when the headphones will not want to become the master of the piconet, so, there will be only a single piconet with the a2dp source as the master. Thus no scatternet. (IVT's BlueSoleil, for instance, does not require to be master) Now, my question is, whether I can send a broadcast packet on the L2CAP layer. If yes, then how? Or will I have to send packets one after the other to all the sinks. If this is the case then I'm afraid that we'll face shortage of bandwidth, cause after sbc encoding, bit rates are no less than 210 kbps, which means that no more than 3 sinks can be supported (for a bandwidth of 723 kbps). Also, I read somewhere that at L2CAP level, we can form groups similar to IGMP. Is that true? or rather, is it there in Bluez? Mayank Batra Help Microsoft fight software piracy: Give Linux to a friend today! ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partner online Go to: http://yahoo.shaadi.com/india-matrimony ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Bluez-devel mailing list Bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-devel