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#1
While lazily browsing the web (instead of working :-) I stumbled upon Jesse Guardiani's site, who put together a bluetooth a2dp hack. I found no reference about it on the forums so I'm reporting it for others to try. I myself have no bt headset, but if it proves to work I might get one :-)

Here's the page: http://www.guardiani.us/index.php/N800_custom_packages#Bluetooth_ALSA

Have fun...

Last edited by debernardis; 2007-07-12 at 14:15.
 
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It's been posted before, but no harm in letting more people know. I haven't tried this myself however.
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I tried it with 3.2007.10-7 and while it's took a while to get set up it worked very very well with my Sony Ericsson DS970 stereo headphones. The author is still working on it and will hopefully produce a deb one day.
 
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I saw this a few weeks back, but I didn't feel like typing in terminal commands just to load and listen to a song. But if it can be integrated into a media app with a decent UI, that would be fantastic...

Milhouse - did the hack also enable regular BT headset functionality?
 
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It's possible to redirect GStreamer to sink to ALSA instead, but that's voodoo.

Any of the generic media players can target ALSA --- kmplayer almost certainly can --- but the CPU hit is still immense until we harness the DSP.
 
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Originally Posted by orbitalcomp View Post
Milhouse - did the hack also enable regular BT headset functionality?
Not sure what you mean by "regular" BT headset functionality, but the BT A2DP hacks are supported by a customised version of the UKMP media player.... if a download link isn't listed on the above website you'll probably be better off tracking down the author trevarthan on #maemo irc.
 
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here's the a2dp supporting media player: https://www.guardiani.us/projects/kagu/wiki
 
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#8
Having hacked a2dp support is nice, I guess, but right now it is very inconvenient. It is like do these ten things in xterm, install svn and other quasi cryptic stuff and ever time you want to listen to some music, type the following lines in xterm, let the program index your music, start the player and then just click on the button! What we need is official support for A2DP that makes everything idiot simple, or a 3rd party plugin like the status bar plugin for the 770 for using bluetooth keyboards. The N800 is SOOO close to being a n absolutely killer multimedia device.
 
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Originally Posted by orbitalcomp View Post
Milhouse - did the hack also enable regular BT headset functionality?
By "regular" I'm guessing you mean the mono single-ear headset with a microphone that are used to talk on cellphones... Or Skype! That would be so nice

A2DP doesn't not address that function. The N800's bluetooth stack would need the headset profile (HSP) and/or handsfree profile (HFP) for it to work.
 
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Originally Posted by Rocketman View Post
Having hacked a2dp support is nice, I guess, but right now it is very inconvenient. It is like do these ten things in xterm, install svn and other quasi cryptic stuff and ever time you want to listen to some music, type the following lines in xterm, let the program index your music, start the player and then just click on the button! What we need is official support for A2DP that makes everything idiot simple, or a 3rd party plugin like the status bar plugin for the 770 for using bluetooth keyboards.
Did you ever consider it's not yet finished and is not end-user ready?
 
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