Pulseaudio / Bluetooth audio skipping

Greetings.
I recently bought a pair of bluetooth headphones, August EP650. They work perfectly on Windows 7, no skipping, great quality. However, in Arch they play ok for a few seconds and then start to skip badly and lag behind (for example, if I pause whatever I'm hearing, I only hear it pausing a few moments later).
I googled hard all day yesterday to try and find a solution but no luck so far.
The logs keep spewing this
May 28 13:02:01 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 6744 us (= 1188 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:01 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 2258 us (= 396 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:01 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 12933 us (= 2280 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:02 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 25389 us (= 4476 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:02 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 47303 us (= 8344 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:02 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 1069 us (= 188 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:02 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 137536 us (= 24260 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:02 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 16039 us (= 2828 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:02 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 47307 us (= 8344 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:02 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 4403 us (= 776 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:03 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 5870 us (= 1032 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:02:03 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 39351 us (= 6940 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:03:36 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 248927 us (= 43908 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:03:36 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 60119 us (= 10604 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:03:36 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 16259 us (= 2868 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:03:36 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 12715 us (= 2240 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:03:37 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 299433 us (= 52816 bytes) in audio stream
May 28 13:03:37 Alpha pulseaudio[12577]: [bluetooth] module-bluez5-device.c: Skipping 88235 us (= 15564 bytes) in audio stream
I'm using the latest pulseaudio and bluez, pairing and connecting using bluetoothctl.
Output of hciconfig -a
hci0:    Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
    BD Address: 4C:ED:DE:08:CC:D7  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
    UP RUNNING
    RX bytes:547 acl:0 sco:0 events:26 errors:0
    TX bytes:341 acl:0 sco:0 commands:26 errors:0
    Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0x9b 0xff 0x79 0x87
    Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
    Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
    Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
    Name: 'Broadcom Bluetooth Device'
    Class: 0x000000
    Service Classes: Unspecified
    Device Class: Miscellaneous,
    HCI Version: 3.0 (0x5)  Revision: 0x222
    LMP Version: 3.0 (0x5)  Subversion: 0x4203
    Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation (15)
Output of bluetoothctl (info)
[bluetooth]# info 00:12:D0:10:94:79
Device 00:12:D0:10:94:79
    Name: EP650
    Alias: EP650
    Class: 0x240404
    Icon: audio-card
    Paired: yes
    Trusted: yes
    Blocked: no
    Connected: yes
    LegacyPairing: no
    UUID: Headset                   (00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: Audio Sink                (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: A/V Remote Control        (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: Handsfree                 (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: PnP Information           (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Any idea of what's going on? If more info is needed I'll provide it ASAP
Last edited by jpgrego (2014-05-28 15:27:45)

felipe wrote:
Hello jpgrego,
Try downgrading to bluez4/pulseaudio4 in aur .  Bluez4/Pulseaudio4 works perfect for me with Nokia BH 503 but in *Debian Jessie/ubuntu 13.10/14.04, I have no tried on Arch because I don't like downgrade things and i was using Gnome3.12 where bluez5 and pulseaudio5 is a dependency
Already tried that, didn't help though unfortunately... thank you for your suggestion anyway!
Pse wrote:I had those problems for months on my laptop. Perfect bluetooth audio experience on Windows, unusable on Linux. It finally got solved with bluez-5 and pulseaudio-5. So it may come down to poor bluetooth support for your current chipset.
Yeah, I suspect that's it. My bluetooth adapter is embedded on the wifi adapter, so they're both from Broadcom (BCM4313) and god knows the problems I had with wifi already. Broadcom doesn't seem to have good support for linux.

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