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xbmc_now · 2014-07-23, 09:43

Do you not be able to jack the sound by smartphone?

Because it is said that the sound of the TV is annoying in my family.

**da-anda** · 2014-07-23, 11:05

sorry, didn't get what you mean. could you explain again? Do you want to hear the sound of the video playing via your smartphone while the TV is muted to not annoy people around? This is not possible atm.

xbmc_now · 2014-07-23, 11:35

By playing on a PC monitor video, I want to hear from headphones was connected to smart phones sound.

topfs2 · 2014-07-23, 13:10

Why don't you just connect the headphones to the PC Smile

**da-anda** · 2014-07-23, 13:11

not possible atm and will be tricky to do, because you have to take care of sync playback between devices (HTPC -> phone)

**Memphiz** · (This post was last modified: 2014-07-24, 12:43 by Memphiz.)

Actually this scenario is possible atm under the following prerequisites:

1. XBMC is running on a MAC with at least OSX 10.8 (this allows you to pass all audio to any airplay capable speaker in the operating system - and so XBMC can send its audio to any airplay sink aswell). The "AirPlay" Audio Output Device has to be selected in XBMC.
2.a The phone has XBMC installed on it with airplay enabled (this will receive the audio)
2.b The phone has any other AirPlay receiver software installed (e.x. AirSpeaker - which also supports audio sync).

I tried 1. + 2.a ant it kinda works ok. But really - why so complicated - there are som good wireless headphones which do the trick much better and in sync.

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2014-07-23, 16:55

I'm a little surprised at the lack of any app that would turn a phone into a bluetooth audio receiver. Audio gets compressed, but the sync on bluetooth audio devices is better than wifi. It's possible to turn a Raspberry Pi into a bluetooth audio receiver, but that's not Android, and iOS doesn't have non-jailbroken access to bluetooth like that.

topfs2 · (This post was last modified: 2014-07-23, 20:50 by topfs2.)

(2014-07-23, 16:55)Ned Scott Wrote: I'm a little surprised at the lack of any app that would turn a phone into a bluetooth audio receiver. Audio gets compressed, but the sync on bluetooth audio devices is better than wifi. It's possible to turn a Raspberry Pi into a bluetooth audio receiver, but that's not Android, and iOS doesn't have non-jailbroken access to bluetooth like that.

Pretty sure that the bluetooth api accessible in Android isn't enough. Unless your willing to implement the entire A2DP stack on rfcomm yourself Smile

EDIT: And the sync in bluetooth is actually terrible, its not even in the API afaik. IIRC bluez and alsa just assume a hardcoded hw delay, even if its not entirely correct.

xbmc_now · 2014-07-24, 01:10

I found it difficult to hear the sound in the remote.

However, I think Ideally, it is good and sound is switched by remote control app.

sound streaming UDP, if it is installed in xbmc, I might be able to

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2014-07-24, 02:55

(2014-07-23, 20:48)topfs2 Wrote:
(2014-07-23, 16:55)Ned Scott Wrote: I'm a little surprised at the lack of any app that would turn a phone into a bluetooth audio receiver. Audio gets compressed, but the sync on bluetooth audio devices is better than wifi. It's possible to turn a Raspberry Pi into a bluetooth audio receiver, but that's not Android, and iOS doesn't have non-jailbroken access to bluetooth like that.

Pretty sure that the bluetooth api accessible in Android isn't enough. Unless your willing to implement the entire A2DP stack on rfcomm yourself

EDIT: And the sync in bluetooth is actually terrible, its not even in the API afaik. IIRC bluez and alsa just assume a hardcoded hw delay, even if its not entirely correct.

Ah, I stand corrected.

**bry** · 2014-07-24, 20:12

google is your friend- http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/...03912.html

**Kib** · 2014-07-24, 21:33

Except that that will have terrible sync issues with the video, which is what we are talking about here

~~Ned Scott~~ · (This post was last modified: 2014-07-25, 00:42 by Ned Scott.)

(2014-07-24, 02:55)Ned Scott Wrote:
(2014-07-23, 20:48)topfs2 Wrote:
(2014-07-23, 16:55)Ned Scott Wrote: I'm a little surprised at the lack of any app that would turn a phone into a bluetooth audio receiver. Audio gets compressed, but the sync on bluetooth audio devices is better than wifi. It's possible to turn a Raspberry Pi into a bluetooth audio receiver, but that's not Android, and iOS doesn't have non-jailbroken access to bluetooth like that.

Pretty sure that the bluetooth api accessible in Android isn't enough. Unless your willing to implement the entire A2DP stack on rfcomm yourself :)

EDIT: And the sync in bluetooth is actually terrible, its not even in the API afaik. IIRC bluez and alsa just assume a hardcoded hw delay, even if its not entirely correct.

Ah, I stand corrected.

Actually, that might not be a blocker. Seems for the other weird bluetooth situations that I've seen, like using your iOS or Android device as a bluetooth keyboard, that's exactly what someone did, they made their own bluetooth stack. It's just with Android you don't have to jailbreak to get the app :)

Still, I understand that it would be a considerable effort to actually do this.

xbmc_now · 2014-07-25, 01:06

(2014-07-24, 20:12)bry- Wrote: google is your friend- http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/...03912.html

Great.
It is a thing I want is exactly this.

After the the question is whether it is synchronized.

I want you to incorporate this feature in XBMC

**Memphiz** · 2014-07-25, 12:04

I want a pony...