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Kevin (kevinhaefeli) wrote : Re: [Bug 405294] Re: A2DP Bluetooth audio skips terribly ["Skipping NNN us (= MMM bytes) in audio stream"]

Can confirm. 17.10 works much better so far.

Rob Schultz <email address hidden> schrieb am Do., 2. Nov. 2017, 15:46:

> Interesting. I installed 17.10 and Bluetooth worked so much better than it
> had with 16.04 (I had basically given up using it).
> Then I re-installed to eliminate any of my changes as a contributor to a
> different issue and now Bluetooth stutters again.
>
> I've commented on bug 88827, but not sure where this goes from here.
> Bluetooth may seem like an nice-to-have item, but I use it daily.
>
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> Title:
> A2DP Bluetooth audio skips terribly ["Skipping NNN us (= MMM bytes) in
> audio stream"]
>
> Status in PulseAudio:
> Confirmed
> Status in bluez package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> As I upgraded to the Karmic alpha, bluetooth audio (via a2dp) stopped
> working properly. It was working fine in Jaunty.
>
> My headphones are detected and configured by pulse, but the audio
> skips as if it's spending half of each second paused. Music is
> buffered so that after I click stop on rhythmbox (or whatever--it
> happens with whatever player I use) the audio continues until it's
> caught up.
>
> syslog is full of the following lines:
> Jul 27 08:55:45 carlin1 pulseaudio[3218]: alsa-source.c: Increasing
> minimal latency to 1.00 ms
> Jul 27 08:55:46 carlin1 pulseaudio[3218]: module-bluetooth-device.c:
> Skipping 15128 us (= 2668 bytes) in audio stream
> Jul 27 08:55:46 carlin1 pulseaudio[3218]: module-bluetooth-device.c:
> Skipping 36586 us (= 6452 bytes) in audio stream
> Jul 27 08:55:46 carlin1 pulseaudio[3218]: module-bluetooth-device.c:
> Skipping 35593 us (= 6276 bytes) in audio stream
> Jul 27 08:55:46 carlin1 pulseaudio[3218]: module-bluetooth-device.c:
> Skipping 36597 us (= 6452 bytes) in audio stream
> Jul 27 08:55:46 carlin1 pulseaudio[3218]: module-bluetooth-device.c:
> Skipping 32601 us (= 5748 bytes) in audio stream
> Jul 27 08:55:46 carlin1 pulseaudio[3218]: module-bluetooth-device.c:
> Skipping 32589 us (= 5748 bytes) in audio stream
>
> This is with
> bluez 4.45-0ubuntu4
> pulseaudio 1:0.9.15-4ubuntu2 0
>
> pulseaudio version 1:0.9.16~test2-0ubuntu1~ppa3 from ubuntu-audio-dev
> didn't help.
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