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2016-05-26, 04:52
(This post was last modified: 2016-05-26, 04:53 by ranar.)
My problem is that I want to listen to a movie, or TV show quietly but don't know how to get the audio from TV to my phone. So I was thinking of getting a Bluetooth transmitter so I could just plug that into my TV and send the audio to my phone which would have earbuds in it. I was hoping there would be another way on how to do this so I wouldn't have to spend 28 dollars on a good Bluetooth transmitter. Is there anything out there that will let me send audio ( I don't really need video as all I want is to listen to it) to my phone. It would have to work with a add-on in the background.
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2016-05-26, 05:45
(This post was last modified: 2016-05-26, 05:55 by d'Wooluf.)
Well, it it's an Android phone and unless something's changed recently, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. What I learnt when I Googled this a few months back is that you want your phone to be an 'a2dp sink' (I hope I got that right). This has not been implemented in Android and I couldn't find any indication that it ever would be. I think it's a licensing thing.
As far as the transmitting part goes, would a bluetooth dongle in your RPi2 work? I don't know...
With Bluetooth, too, you may run into latency issues, with the vision and sound being slightly out of sync. I threw a bit of money at the problem. I got a Bluetooth transmitter that uses the AptX low-latency codec and a headset that can use that same codec. That was about $200 US at discounted prices.
Edit: Just re-read your post and realised that I didn't quite answer your question. Is there another way (apart from Bluetooth) of getting just the audio to your phone? I think this has been asked before and the answer was again no. It would be nice if someone were to prove me wrong. I'd like to do this too.
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Okay so it sounds like there isn't really a way to do this wireless unless you spend some money which is what I was trying to prevent. I guess I will just have to go wired and buy a 5$ cable. thanks for the responses though.
