A2DP on FreeBSD, part N

Lars Engels lars.engels at 0x20.net
Fri Oct 9 09:21:22 UTC 2015


On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 10:15:39AM +0100, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Maxim V Filimonov <che at bein.link> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I found this link: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2015/09/14/msg016883.html
> > >
> > > As you might notice from the URL, it's about A2DP on NetBSD. I heard that A2DP
> > > requires mostly userland tools, so might anyone look at it and see if it will
> > > actually work with FreeBSD? I didn't manage to compile that, and I don't have
> > > the skills to make it work, unfortunately. Is it even portable to FreeBSD?
> > 
> > bluetooth uers pace part should be portable (relatively straight
> > forward). the audio drivers part will require a bit more work, but
> > still doable.
> 
> There is still a lot of work to do on this program in any case.. it can 
> currently play an audio file to an A2DP receiver (I have a pair of 
> headphones, and a standalone speaker). It does this by piping stdin (or 
> reading from a .WAV file) into an RFCOMM connection so that should 
> basically work on FreeBSD anyway
> 
> There is no real support for audio devices at this time, but I have 
> encouraged Nathaniel to implement a method where it could use the backend 
> of a pad(4) device so that the system would see an audio device and you 
> could use your normal audio player. I think this will need extensions to 
> pad(4) in any case as that is too simple.
> 

Maybe Hans-Petter (CC'ed) is also interested, as he authored or ported
or uaudio driver.
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