[LAD] AoIP question

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Sun Oct 5 22:48:02 UTC 2014


On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 01:51:36PM -0700, Len Ovens wrote:

> AES67 (and other formats) use PTP (IEEE 1588-2008) to keep the
> system clocks aligned at a usec level. The media clock is then
> derived from that. The media clock on both systems should therefore
> be syncronis.

It's easy to write in a standard that

  'The media clock is then derived from that'.

Doing it is another matter. It requires either controlling
the HW sample rate (which is the 'media clock' for audio)
or resampling.

Ciao,

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