19 Aug
2004
19 Aug
'04
5:08 a.m.
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 10:20 am, Joe Hartley wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:13:21 +0300
Sampo Savolainen <v2(a)iki.fi> wrote:
It'd be kind of nice if they were time aligned to one master. It doesn't have
to be sample accurate to avoid sounding like Lou Gehring if somebody is
outside. Of course you'd probably want to add a weather station so you can
compensate for temp/humidity/barometric pressure ;)
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!)