On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Tim Newsham <[email protected]> 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. >> > > 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. > > > Roman. >> > > Tim Newsham > http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ > >
