What codec does this use? i.e. does it support apt-x?
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my ipod is synced to a home theater right through amazon basic bluethoot and no difference in sound quality, simply connection
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To be honest i have no idea but it live streams audio via bluetooth so it's not track by track
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I have tried multiple formats and none of them works. If you find out, please let me know
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Try VLC, open source player. Most everything plays. No extra codecs necessary. Get the Audiodock for Duo; hear it better.
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You need xbmc. Latest stable version is Gothom. Then you need add ons referred to as repos. Your machine should have come with xbmc, but you will need to add the repos. NaviX is a good one as is xbmc hub. Adding the repo can be tedious. I recommend you go to xbmc.com and read about it and various repos. It's worth the effort. BTW, I didn't care for the box you have and I returned it for an MXQ. I prefer that processor.
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That's been my experience too, at least with the btd-v401 which I tried on Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit), 8, and 10. I'm ready to throw in the towel with apt-x and look for some other low-latency cable-free solution.
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The generic XBMC release will have interface working, however video has a lot of problems. There are some experimental releases which have some improvements in the player, but they are not stable and cannot be really used. I would not recommend this device to be used for XBMC as of today.
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You can play certain formats via USB. This is what they list as compatible, but there may be more: MP3/WMA/WAV, JPEG, DivX(R)/MPEG1/MPEG2. The KWV41BT is the newer model, but I do not see any feature set differences between the units. Just some slight cosmetic and GUI changes.
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I tested an mp4 and it plays them. though I don't know what encoding was used
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I have the same problem, and I understand it is to do with the way the audio was encoded when the mkv was made, and what the encoder was intending the file to be played on.There is lots of discussion about it here: http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=56433&page;=3and it may be fixable. I have not tried yet.HTH
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Try DAK, only brand I know of that has bluetooth receivers supporting apt-x
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It can play MKV files of any size (supports FAT32 & NTFS). Don't think it's region free...
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What is the link for this Mediastream software? I have had no luck in finding a download.
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XBMC has a pre-built Ubuntu based distribution available. Otherwise, I would recommend any Debian derivative. Ubuntu is probably the easiest option.
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aptX is a codec not a connection protocol. It makes a huge improvement in music quality--use Google to find quantitative measurements.
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I own this exact model and the stock XBMC distro from xbmc.org does indeed have audio issues. If you want to run "OpenElec" distro of XBMC, I can confirm that this distro does not suffer from the audio issues the stock distro does. I have this unit, running OpenElec (latest build 3.95.4 or something), and it works fine.
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Update: With the newest firmware the BDP 80 plays MKV just fine! Now my only wish is for H 264 playback. THEN it would truly be universal. (although limited to Fat 32 making large NTFS USB drives pretty useless for now)
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the other device needs to have support for apt-x too. moreover, they need to negotiate the pairing instance as aptx. that is easy to see in Android logcat on a rooted device. that being said, when I want to listen tv via headsets I am using the telme2 pair of a toslink Bluetooth adapter + headset, both apt-x, no audio lag that I can notice.