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Bluetooth connectivity
#11
The included device is just a temporary connector until the new firmware is release. After this release, the Bluetooth hardware inside the phantom is activated, and you won't need the nuforce device any longer.
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#12
The aptX-Codec is not a lossless codec it is an ADPCM codec so there is compression involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AptX
Unfortunately there is no such thing as lossless over Bluetooth. This is due to the fact that the bandwith available on Bluetooth is not big enough to carry a lossless stream.
If you want to stream lossless from any app your best option is to use Apple Airport Express plugged into the Phantom optical input and use Airplay to play your music.
PH
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#13
(07-Aug-2015, 21:58)karebe Wrote:
(07-Aug-2015, 20:34)Phs Wrote: The aptX-Codec is not a lossless codec it is an ADPCM codec so there is compression involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AptX
Unfortunately there is no such thing as lossless over Bluetooth. This is due to the fact that the bandwith available on Bluetooth is not big enough to carry a lossless stream.
If you want to stream lossless from any app your best option is to use Apple Airport Express plugged into the Phantom optical input and use Airplay to play your music.
PH

Thank you for correcting me. I really thought there is a lossless BT format. aptX is obviously nearly lossless.

You prefer Airplay and I have everything wired.

Audio streaming always uses the UDP protocol and multicast. So does Airplay. Which means the sender doesn't wait for an positive "ACK" if an UDP-datagram is received undamaged. A damaged or lost UDP-datagram will not be resend. So it could happen that damaged datagrams are received or datagrams get lost. It is not even guaranteed that datagrams have the same order when they are received. Therefore I think you cannot have enough bandwidth.

To make your network really audio and video ready you have to make sure that all your network components can handle igmp or better multicast in general. Because otherwise multicasts are send as broadcasts and they can flood your whole network and especially WLANs with their limited capacity. This leads to dropouts and frozen screens. In a professional environment it is not enough to active igmp snooping. But for most private networks sufficient.

Airplay uses RTSP RTP RTCP which is based on UDP but enhanced including Time Stamping and packet retransmission. So the packet disorder or lost is not happening
http://nto.github.io/AirPlay.html
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