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darkshadow

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Registered: 2025-11-16

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SBC-XQ codec in bluetooth audio is super glitchy

Whenever i switch to sbc-xq on my bluetoother earphones, its always garbled n stuff. There is also aac, which works and 2 other codecs with low bitrate for mic input called CVSD and mSBC. All works fine, just except for SBC-XQ.

sekret

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Registered: 2013-07-22

Posts: 307

Re: SBC-XQ codec in bluetooth audio is super glitchy

I found out that it depends on the bluetooth device. My bluetooth speakers cannot handle SBC-XQ, my earphones handle it perfectly. I think it has something to do with buffer memory or something like that. Since XQ has a much higher bitrate, the buffer gets filled faster, maybe too fast for some devices.