A2DP on FreeBSD, part N

[Iain Hibbert]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Maxim V Filimonov <che at bein.link> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I found this link: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2015/09/14/msg016883.html
> >
> > As you might notice from the URL, it's about A2DP on NetBSD. I heard that A2DP
> > requires mostly userland tools, so might anyone look at it and see if it will
> > actually work with FreeBSD? I didn't manage to compile that, and I don't have
> > the skills to make it work, unfortunately. Is it even portable to FreeBSD?
> 
> bluetooth uers pace part should be portable (relatively straight
> forward). the audio drivers part will require a bit more work, but
> still doable.

There is still a lot of work to do on this program in any case.. it can 
currently play an audio file to an A2DP receiver (I have a pair of 
headphones, and a standalone speaker). It does this by piping stdin (or 
reading from a .WAV file) into an RFCOMM connection so that should 
basically work on FreeBSD anyway

There is no real support for audio devices at this time, but I have 
encouraged Nathaniel to implement a method where it could use the backend 
of a pad(4) device so that the system would see an audio device and you 
could use your normal audio player. I think this will need extensions to 
pad(4) in any case as that is too simple.

iain