Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

PulseAudio Gains A Native Bluetooth Headset Backend

Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 31 October 2014 at 08:42 AM EDT. 7 Comments

PulseAudio now has a native headset backend for dealing with Bluetooth headsets.

Wim Tayman added a native Bluetooth HSP headset backend to PulseAudio. This backend allows PulseAudio to output audio to a headset supporting the HSP profile. HSP is short for the Headset Profile and is the most commonly used profile for Bluetooth headsets and mobile phones. Those wishing to learn more about Bluetooth HSP can visit Bluetooth.org.

The backend is now in Git and will be found with PulseAudio 6.0, which will hopefully be due out soon given that PulseAudio 5.0 is now eight months old.

7 Comments

Microsoft Rolls Out Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 With Security Fixes & Other Patches

Intel HID Driver Ready For Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Laptops With Linux 6.9

UPower 1.90.4 Fixes Excessive Disk Writes & High CPU Usage

OpenSSL 3.3 Released With Many Additions For QUIC, CPU Performance Optimizations

x86-64-v5? Questions Arise Over The Future Of x86-64 Micro-Architecture Feature Levels

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.