Thread: A2DP: Simplified Install Instructions
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dabuplayer is offline dabuplayer
2007-10-24 , 17:30
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#91
Originally Posted by pearl62 View Post
dabuplayer, I think you missed my point... A mono headset does not support A2DP. SBC decoding is not trivial, and an optimized headset design does not have the power to decode SBC, and still allow a long battery life.

Since they will see the target device does not have A2DP support, phones, PDAs, PCs will probably make the connection to a voice headset like the HS850 via the headset profile. I don't think Millhouse has added headset profile support... It seems specifically targeted to A2DP only.
well, a2dp is more a quality standard than a mono/stereo one. I don't know if there are any a2dp mono headsets (i searched for the Motorola HS850 specs and it's mono with no a2dp profile) but a2dp supports stereo as well as mono.

One application of this would be for underpowered devices like the n770 where you would like to watch a movie through a2dp and don't care about stereo sound, so switching to mono saves a lot of processor time and battery.

Indeed i misread your answer, thinking the original question was whether a2dp supports mono or not.

cheers