# Bluetooth-alsa

Bluetooth audio for Linux

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Some instrumental people in this effort:

### Developers

- Jonathan Paisley (retired from the project) started it up and wrote the original btsco daemon & kernel mod
- Niko Berger brought the kernel patches forward to 2.6.7 and 2.6.8
- Lars Grunewaldt (also retired) added some stuff to the userspace daemon
- Marcel Holtmann has always been the key developer for bluez and has recently jumped in and helped a lot with our project specifically
- Henryk Ploetz completed the first SBC codec
- Brad Midgley is doing documentation, A2DP protocols, vendor relations, and project coordination
- Fredrik Tolf has been fixing up daemon/userspace interactions in btsco
- Mayank Batra contributed a2recv.c for A2DP sink support
- Victor Shcherbatyuk added fixed-point A2DP encoding including Arm optimizations
- Andreas Beck gave us the script in contrib for skype and is working on automatic mic gain and fixing noise
- Sergey Krivov took our stalled alsa a2dp plugin effort and got it going
- Fabien Chevalier wrote the alsa sco (userspace) plugin and is working on kernel/sco flow control

### Our Sponsors

Nokia | is a great open-source partner and hosted the first BlueZ developer group meeting
| makes brilliant embedded xscale boards with bluetooth
| provides our project hosting