Re: [Bluez-devel] RE : a2dpd and mplayer - any chance to get it working?

Fabien Chevalier
2007-01-18T17:50:34Z

Brad Midgley wrote:
> Guys
>
>> What you've done in the a2dp pcm plugin(if i understood well) is to
>> throttle the application using sleep. But that does not emulate the ring
>> buffer behaviour well enough, so it breaks MPlayer. :-(
>
> although vlc works, maybe it is using the same execution thread for both
> audio and video and getting i/o blocked. when I switch it to a2dp on an
> older machine, full-motion video goes from smooth to very choppy. this
> is using the 32-bit codec so it shouldn't take that much cpu.
>
> is this just a design problem with alsa that should be worked around in
> players?

I would rather vote for a bug in a2dp plugin. ;-)
Btw, did you try with sco plugin ? Is it better ?

Cheers,

Fabien