Sound from bluetooth speaker seems to freeze often and is out of sync with the video
Computer Model: Dell Inspiron N5050 (laptop).
Version of Ubuntu: Have checked in Ubuntu 13.10 and 13.04
Model of Bluetooth speaker: Bose Soundlink mini bluetooth speaker
Description of issue:
Issue 1: Able to pair and connect laptop to the speaker (but the connection breaks after some time and I have to remove the speaker from the laptop bluetooth and repair and reconnect).
Issue 2: When the speaker is connected; if I play a movie, the sound often stops (and pauses the video). Also, the sound and video are out of sync (what I see and what I hear do not match, the sound usually lagging the video).
I have no issues connecting the bluetooth speaker to my Android phone (HTC Wildfire S Android 2.3.5) and Samsung Galaxy tab 2 (10.1 inches) and viewing movies.
I have also tried the solution as mentioned here
sudo gedit /etc/bluetooth/main.conf
and changed the value of RememberPowered
from true
to false
.
Have installed Blueman and BlueZ.
Possible workaround for the sync problem: mplayer has a command-line option to adjust the delay between sound an image, so you could regain sync this way.
The command would be mplayer -delay X /path/to/videofile
where X
is the delay in seconds. Negative values of X
mean that the image will be delayed, and positive values mean the sound will be delayed.