Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure either latency or RT is proper terminology here. But
>> I believe what I meant was clear: when you need overall latency
>> to be around 5ms you start to notice 9P.
>>
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> It sounds like you have a specific app in mind, and a real-time
> one at that.  If you're using your audio device for live audio
> (ie. adding effects to audio from your guitar)
> you need pretty small latency.  You can go a bit higher than
> 5ms without noticing, though.
>
> Most apps dont require realtime.  For example, streaming a song.
> You dont care if the samples show up at year ear 2seconds
> after they were sent from your hard drive, so long as all the
> samples are delayed by the same amount..  You can stream this
> clear across the country over all kinds of cut rate ISPs and
> still get satisfactory results with enough buffering..


At which point that constant latency could be considered just a transmission
delay :-).

VoIP seems to give consistent latency too, but latency for sure.... and it
works just fine.


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>  Roman.
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> Tim Newsham
> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
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