[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#532098: bluez-alsa is silent, but mplayer complains loudly

[Tiago Bortoletto Vaz]

Hi all,

Just to confirm the same issue here in both i386 and amd64 systems. I'm using
a Jabra BT200 headset which used to work well in previous bluez versions.


tiago at thinkpad:~$ mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth 04.\ Bubuia.mp3
[...]
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1607:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Input/output error
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=bluetooth'
[...]

tiago at thinkpad:~$ dpkg -l |grep blue
ii  bluetooth                            4.56-2                       Bluetooth support
ii  bluez                                4.56-2                       Bluetooth tools and daemons
ii  bluez-alsa                           4.56-2                       Bluetooth ALSA support
rc  bluez-audio                          3.36-3                       Bluetooth audio support
ii  bluez-cups                           4.56-2                       Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS
ii  bluez-gnome                          0.27-1                       Bluetooth utilities for GNOME
ii  bluez-gstreamer                      4.56-2                       Bluetooth GStreamer support
ii  bluez-utils                          4.56-2                       Transitional package
ii  gnome-bluetooth                      0.9.1-1                      GNOME Bluetooth tools
ii  libbluetooth-dev                     3.36-1                       Development files for using the BlueZ Linux Blueto
ii  libbluetooth2                        3.36-1                       Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
ii  libbluetooth3                        4.56-2                       Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
rc  libkbluetooth0                       1.0~beta8-6                  Bluetooth library for KDE

tiago at thinkpad:~$ cat .asoundrc
pcm.a2dpd {
            type a2dpd
      }

pcm.bluetooth {
   type bluetooth
   device 00:07:A4:07:7B:8A
}

Regards,

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Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
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