Re: A2DP over DBUS

Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:47:56 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bluez.devel
Message-ID <1221331676.6695.55.camel@californication>
Hi Choi,

> >> How does the application sends the data packets (the actual music) to
> >> bluez ? via dbus ? isn't this slow ?
> >
> > for that we have plugins for ALSA, GStreamer and PulseAudio. They will
> > take care of the actual sending of the data. The full mechanism is a
> > little bit more complex. Looks at the source code to see how it works.
> 
> That's interesting, I will look it up.
> 
> Can you please explain briefly what's the underlying method that the
> plugin uses to send the data to bluez then ? does it directly uses
> sockets and sends it to the kernel ?

direct SCO or L2CAP sockets to have a low latency and to avoid copying
data around.

Regards

Marcel



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