Hi, Call for testers of the next installment of bta2dpd.
It allows you to stream music or pad(4) output to bluetooth stereo headphones or speakers using the advanced audio distribution profile (a2dp). NEW!!! bta2dpd can be used also as an audio sink, so you can stream music from your phone/computer etc. to a file or audioplay to hear it on your computer speakers. See below. This program will work on NetBSD-current, 7 and 6. To compile: extract the archive from ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nat/bta2dpd-v62.tgz change to the extracted directory and make(1). ie. $cd bta2dp-bsd-v62 $make. pair up your bluetooth headphones/speakers: #btpin -P .... -a bluetooth-device-address And your ready to go... To use this deamon requires 44100Hz stereo signed 16 bit little endian wav files or the pad(4) device. $./bta2dpd -a bluetooth-device-address my.wav or $./bta2dpd -a bluetooth-device-address /dev/pad0 Most of the options change the way audio is encoded and are not necessary however if you have skipping audio or no audio try the following: ./bta2dpd -a bluetooth-device-address -M 300 my.wav or ./bta2dpd -a bluetooth-device-address -M 300 -B 36 my.wav The -M option limits the maximum amount of data sent to the bluetooth device per transaction, if you still have problems try an MTU of 700 (-M 700) and work your way down by hundreds. The -B option limits the bitpool value used for encoding the stream and although the daemon calculates the bitpool value it might not work in all cases. NEW!!! It can also be used as an audio sink: ./bta2dpd -K -r 44100 | audioplay -f -e linear -P 16 -c 2 -s 44100 -- As an audio sink it is possible to specify an address to receive connections from with -a. i.e: ./bta2dpd -K -r 44100 -a myphone | audioplay -f -e linear -P 16 -c 2 -s 44100 -- I found in order for my phone to connect to bta2dpd as an audio sink I needed the most recent version of sdpd(1) and had to set a pin code for my phone (see btpin(1)) and had to start bta2dpd as a sink with -K before pairing. Best regards, Nat.