pablolie;237489 Wrote: > Packet loss in data transmission is common, and is merely an issue when > the application is not loss tolerant. In a business network, you'll > probably want to prioritize critical business flows over streaming > audio and youtube :-) TCP/IP typically corrects packet loss, or you'll > know. UDP doesn't, it leaves that to protocols above. > > All in all, packet retransmisson and error recovery are a matter of the > right design in the protocol stack. > > It surprises most people to hear that data networks regard voice > connections as quite loss tolerant. You hear some clipping, big deal, > the other person will repeat the sentence if the listener thinks it's > worth it. :-) Luckily audio doesn't use that path in our SB setups. But > would I say the connection between the SS and the SB never loses > packets? I think some reports herte attest it's not qwuite the case and > that it naturally depends on the quality of the connection. However, I > think data corruption is extremely rare - very improbable, but > possible, and not critical for the aplication all in all.
I was avoiding getting technical for the benefit of non IT-heads. I'll put that aside for a moment :-) I agree with your comments. I believe the slim apps do use buffers and retries to manage the UDP streaming so that packet loss remains insignificant. Packet corruption is vanishingly insignificant because of the checksum in each UDP packet. darrenyeats;234105 Wrote: > > In between these stages - where only numbers exist - In S/PDIF not "only numbers" exist but numbers with timing. The UDP-based protocols in slimserver cannot be compared to S/PDIF in terms of reliability and robustness. My point was that people shouldn't start using shielded gold ethernet wires to improve the sound. It won't improve things since in IT connection quality is more a function of the software layers than the hardware (as you pointed out well). Darren -- darrenyeats SB3 / Inguz -> Krell KAV-300i (pre bypass mode) -> PMC AB-1 Dell laptop -> JVC UX-C30 mini system ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39113 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
