Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: bluez-utils
I compiled the sources for bluez-utils 3.15-0ubuntu1 as published on
launchpad. One of the big enhancements in the latest releases of bluez-
utils is support for A2DP. This is an audio protocol used by some
bluetooth headsets to provide better quality audio than the basic voice
support. As they stand right now, the packaged sources for bluez-utils
do not turn on the compilation of support for A2DP.
The solution would be to turn on the A2DP support during compilation and
to include the necessary binaries and control files in the binary
packages.
The addition of A2DP support in bluez-utils is not merely a technical
novelty. It provides a replacement for bluetooth-alsa and as such has
the following advantages over bluetooth-alsa:
1. It is much easier to configure and use than bluetooth-alsa. While we
cannot yet talk of "plug and play", it is still a significant step
towards supporting bluetooth headsets in Ubuntu in a user friendly way.
2. Bluetooth-alsa has serious technical defects. It introduces such a
delay in the audio that it was practically impossible for me to listen
to the audio track of a movie through my headset: the video and audio
were utterly out of sync. In contrast, bluez-utils 3.15 introduces no
such delay: watching movies with the audio in sync worked right out of
the box for me.
** Affects: bluez-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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A2DP support is not included in the binary packages of bluez-utils
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135196
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