[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#516994: channel information from gstreamer mp3parse in gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly does not match gstreamer a2dpsink in bluez

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:38:24PM -0500, Daniel Benoy wrote:
> Package: bluez-utils
> 
> Raw mp3 data can be sent to the bluez gstreamer a2dpsink element like this:
> 
> gst-launch filesrc location=<some mp3 file> ! mp3parse ! a2dpsink device=<address>
> 
> However, on my debian system, the output for channel description messages from
> the mp3parse element don't match what the a2dpsink element expects to see.
> This results in an error that was a PITA to track down, and requires running
> gst-launch with --gst-debug avdtpsink:5 at minimum, resulting in (among other
> things) these lines:
> 
> ----
> 0:00:02.785764000 12766    0xa8620 WARN             avdtpsink
> gstavdtpsink.c:1358:gst_avdtp_sink_set_channel_mode:<avdtpsink> Received
> invalid channel mode: joint-stereo
> 0:00:02.795341000 12766    0xa8620 ERROR            avdtpsink
> gstavdtpsink.c:987:gst_avdtp_sink_init_mp3_pkt_conf:<avdtpsink> No info about
> channel mode received, can't proceed
> 0:00:02.798054000 12766    0xa8620 ERROR            avdtpsink
> gstavdtpsink.c:1051:gst_avdtp_sink_configure:<avdtpsink> Couldn't parse caps
> to packet configuration
> ----
> 
> look at lines 152 and 153 in
> gst-plugins-ugly0.10-0.10.10/gst/mpegaudioparse/gstmpegaudioparse.c, and
> compare it to lines 283 and 287 in bluez-utils-3.36/audio/gstavdtpsink.c

what these lines are like? next time please report them :)

> 
> I made the change by hand to gst-plugins-ugly, however I don't know which one
> deserved to be changed (I suppose gstreamer is the authoratative source, so
> maybe I should have changed bluez?)

what have you changed?

does this still happens with bluez 4 from unstable?

thanks,
filippo
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