18 Aug
2004
18 Aug
'04
12:36 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:13:21 +0300
Sampo Savolainen <v2(a)iki.fi> wrote:
There is no way of doing real-time processing over a
network reliably.
Dropouts and timeouts, packet retries are in the nature of computer
networks. UDP is a very smart way to (try to) send realtime data through
a network. If the implementation is at least average, that is the best
performance you can get.
Along similar lines, a friend of mine had been working on some code
(unfortunately in a Windows environment, and in a programming language
that he developed himself(!) so the work's not available to me) to do
something I'd love to implement: synchronized streaming.
I live in a house with 4 distinct areas, with network connected music
systems in each area. When I have a party, I'd love to have each of
these machines tie into a stream from my audio server so that they're
in sync - that is, if I can hear 2 different systems at the same time,
I want them to be at the same place in the stream, not a second or two
off from each other.
Has anyone heard of anything under Linux that would do such a thing?
(It just occured to me that tapping into such a stream with a buffer of
size 0 may do it, though that could open me up to hearing every little
network burp encountered. I'll have to try that tonight!)
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