[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#532098: bluez-alsa is silent, but mplayer complains loudly

[Mark Kamichoff]

Hi - 

I see the same thing, but only when I add ``profile "hifi"'' to my
.asoundrc.  If I omit the profile line, it works fine, but sounds
terrible (like it's using the handsfree profile..by default?):

neodymium% cat ~/.asoundrc 
pcm.bluetooth {
        type bluetooth
        # Altec Lansing
        device "00:1C:EF:4B:33:C4"
        profile "hifi"
}

neodymium% mplayer -nojoystick -nolirc -ao alsa:device=bluetooth 15\ Monsun.mp3
MPlayer dev-SVN-r29417
Playing 15 Monsun.mp3.
Audio only file format detected.
Clip info:
 Title: Monsun
 Artist: 3rd Moon
 Album: A State of Trance 2009 (Mixed 
 Year: 2009
 Comment: 
 Track: 15
 Genre: Trance
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_bluetooth.c:1607:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Input/output error
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=bluetooth'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
Video: no video


Exiting... (End of file)

neodymium% 

But, I do see a message in my /var/log/daemon.log, right when I run
MPlayer:

Aug  5 09:21:29 neodymium bluetoothd[27847]: Unable to find a matching device

I'm not sure exactly what that's referring to.  According to hcidump, bluez
doesn't try to connect to my device at all.  Here's the bluez package versions
I have installed:

ii  bluez                      4.42-2 Bluetooth tools and daemons
ii  bluez-alsa                 4.42-2 Bluetooth ALSA support
ii  bluez-audio                4.42-2 Transitional package
ii  bluez-gstreamer            4.42-2 Bluetooth GStreamer support
ii  bluez-hcidump              1.42-1 Analyses Bluetooth HCI packets
ii  bluez-utils                4.42-2 Transitional package
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.20+dfsg-1 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  alsa-oss                   1.0.17-1      ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
ii  alsa-source                1.0.20+dfsg-1 ALSA driver sources
ii  alsa-utils                 1.0.20-2      ALSA utilities

Let me know if I should try/send anything else.  This same setup worked
fine with the 3.3x versions of bluez-audio, etc.

Thanks!

- Mark

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Mark Kamichoff
prox at prolixium.com
http://www.prolixium.com/