Is there a way around the high audio latency of bluetooth earbuds, on stadia? Is it possible to have reasonable sub second audio latency using bluetooth earbuds while using stadia?
My chromebook doesn't have an audio jack, so I tried bluetooth earphones/buds. They have allot of audio lag or high audio latency on stadia however. Youtube audio works fine with these it seems.
There also isn't a chromebook stadia app I think. Right? To see if I can test this outside of the google chrome webbrowser.
The audio delay should be a system level one, that is that Stadia doesn't manage the audio connection itself at all this is handled by Chrome OS and your hardware - so I'm surprised that you say you don't notice the delay with YouTube. Personally I've had very little success with using Bluetooth as a connection means for anything that needs to be in sync whether it be games or movies. Often the combination of the bluetooth device and the host device they're connected to will work better in some cases than others so it may be worth trying a different pair of bluetooth headphones (or two or three) if you have access to others. For example, out of like 6 or 7 different bluetooth headphones/earbuds I only found a single set that resulted in a manageable enough latency to not be TOO distracting watching movies on my Shield TV (happened to be Bose QuietComfort IIs).
It may be that just due to the nature of passively watching a video compared to playing a game that the same latency is just perceived differently by you, or there is some kind of voodoo going on with Chrome and YouTube specifically that tries to compensate but I can't imagine how Chrome would even know what the latency value is - every other place I've seen that lets you adjust this to compensate is a manual setting, sometimes but not always accompanied by a test screen that shows something like a bouncing ball with a sound effect that you tweak yourself to match.
So here's my recommendation for you. Drop the idea of using bluetooth. Your chromebook doesn't have a standard 3.5mm audio jack but it almost 100% will support a wired USB-C headset/headphones and you can find these relatively cheaply if you're not too concerned about sound quality. You can also inexpensively find USB-C to 3.5mm adapters that will let you use anything you've already got.
The audio delay should be a system level one, that is that Stadia doesn't manage the audio connection itself at all this is handled by Chrome OS and your hardware - so I'm surprised that you say you don't notice the delay with YouTube. Personally I've had very little success with using Bluetooth as a connection means for anything that needs to be in sync whether it be games or movies. Often the combination of the bluetooth device and the host device they're connected to will work better in some cases than others so it may be worth trying a different pair of bluetooth headphones (or two or three) if you have access to others. For example, out of like 6 or 7 different bluetooth headphones/earbuds I only found a single set that resulted in a manageable enough latency to not be TOO distracting watching movies on my Shield TV (happened to be Bose QuietComfort IIs).
It may be that just due to the nature of passively watching a video compared to playing a game that the same latency is just perceived differently by you, or there is some kind of voodoo going on with Chrome and YouTube specifically that tries to compensate but I can't imagine how Chrome would even know what the latency value is - every other place I've seen that lets you adjust this to compensate is a manual setting, sometimes but not always accompanied by a test screen that shows something like a bouncing ball with a sound effect that you tweak yourself to match.
So here's my recommendation for you. Drop the idea of using bluetooth. Your chromebook doesn't have a standard 3.5mm audio jack but it almost 100% will support a wired USB-C headset/headphones and you can find these relatively cheaply if you're not too concerned about sound quality. You can also inexpensively find USB-C to 3.5mm adapters that will let you use anything you've already got.
Hey, wow thanks for all the information. It is indeed weird, why youtube works, also on google chrome webbrowser. Perhaps the whole world uses youtube, so it has some extra magic there? haha. Altho other video tv apps work ~0 sec latency too. galaxy earbuds, chromebook duet 128gb.
The bluetooth earbuds has huge audio latency compared to wired/speaker, on stadia via google chrome webbrowser, and other apps like music composing app: fl studio, aswell. The difference is about a second. ~1 sec latency wireless on stadia, and ~0 sec wired on stadia, audio latency. Strangely, bluetooth mouse has ~0 sec latency on those apps, stadia/fl studio.
thought it might be software simply developing for the bluetooth earphones since allot of people use wireless earphones? I notice that whatever most people use, gets the most support. Otherwise, perhaps my earbuds are actually good for ~0 sec latency, but there may be a software issue, or maybe something I'm doing wrong. I did try to disable and enable noise cancelling, no difference. Also noise cancelling doesn seem to work anyway.
Yet strangely, youtube works fine, and other video apps works fine too. Not sure why.
Hmm, it seems my earbuds use a higher bluetooth than my chromebook perhaps that's the issue?
I can't charge when I use wired earphones, but I also don need to necesserily charge anyway. I think your advice is good. Yet I kinda like the feeling of freedom of the galaxy earbuds. I just tried it because I had no audio port, turns out it's nice not to be wired to a computer. Yet I like dependability too.
Also gonna try different bluetooth wireless earphones. See how it goes.
Ok, that is weird. JBL bluetooth earphones has ~0 sec audio latency, on my google chrome webbrowser stadia, on chromebook duet. Even switched middplay to galaxy buds, and its still ~1 sec consistent audio latency.
Appearantly similar earphones to my bluetooth jbl ones use bluetooth 4.2 like my chromebook does. Perhaps that's why there is ~0 sec latency.
galaxy earbuds live being 5.0 bluetooth, maybe thats why it has latency on stadia. Yet strangely not on youtube / chrome browser youtube, or other video tv apps.
As far as I know, there was a value in the bluetooth specification that the audio receiver could send that indicated the delay that audio device had so the audio source could compensate for that. Youtube works fine because it knows "what comes next" and it can delay the video a bit, according to that value, so the audio and video are more or less in sync. But when you play in stadia or any other game there is no way to know "what is coming next" because it depends on the player's input so there is no way of delaying the video to match the audio delay that bluetooth introduces. I don't remember exactly in which part of the bluetooth specification that was but I remember reading about that. In any case, it's a bit of hit and miss. I have a very cheap Motorola Moto surround headphones that work fine with Windows 10 with any video software. The operating system delays any video to match the audio and you can tell it takes a bit to start the video when you pause it and resume it again. But it doesn't happen with other more expensive headphones. Bluetooth is a crappy standard if it can be called that. Every device works in a different way...
Get a USB-C hub that has PD pass through if you want to charge while using an accessory at the same time if you only have a single port. Also plentiful and inexpensive on AMZ.
cool ty, that's a nice option to have. Didn't know that was possible.
Also incase someone is interested. After a little bit of research. Appearantly bluetooth 5.0 can transfer low data range, long distance range, and also high data range, shorter distance range. So it may be that 5.0 can still work with my 4.2 depending on software, but I have no further knowledge here. Software and hardware interaction, pretty complex. Considering endless software/hardware combo's.
I'm already amazed it works at all even. x)