[MPlayer-dev-eng] Smooth sync w/ network audio (and broken audio drivers!)
Arpi
arpi at thot.banki.hu
Fri Sep 20 20:22:14 CEST 2002
Hi,
> I'm not suggesting we implement something like xntpd in mplayer, ...
> The basic concept is just one of _sampling_ and _averaging_.
> I may just have re-invented a bit shorter version of -dapsync here
> (but -dapsync didn't work for me). Mine's only a few lines and it
-dapsync never worked for me either, i'm about removing that...
> averages the corrections to the frame delay which "Arpi's A/V sync"
> effectively applies. It makes all of the movies I've tested play
> as smoothly as they do with -nosound ... even with broken audio drivers,
> and at *no penalty to the good audio drivers*, ... and even with
> network audio (which is really what motivated me to explore this
sounds great! patch?
> method.) A/V remains perfectly in sync because the averaging has
> the effect of gently slewing the frame rate when the delay gets off
> instead of making an instant correction based on a noisy measurement.
>
> The patch is very simple, but I want to test it a bit more because
> there must have been endless debates on A/V sync before, and I
> want to make sure I nail it ;-) Three different sync models would
> be too much. I guess there are still people out there who think
> they need -dapsync? Maybe they could help me test my patch to see
> if it solves their problem as well as or better than -dapsync?
i've asked this question (anyone using -dapsync?) some months ago, and
afair no one said 'yes i need it'.
A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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