Am 07.01.2011 23:38, schrieb David Richards: > I'm also interested in another concept of lossless streaming with > flac. Lets call it broadcast flac. A problem with streaming for long > periods of time is that the sending and receiving computers clocks go > out of sync, for example even if I stream myself on localhost, with This is not a FLAC specific problem, but has to be handled in all situations where the streaming server is in control of the transmitting data rate. It's caused by a playback device, which actual sample rate is slightly higher than the sample rate actually requested or a streaming source, which system clock is running slowly. Since these parameters (at least an exact playback sample rate) is hard to achieve, this is a rather common problem. Or to shorten it: If the data has a sample rate of 44100 and your sound card consumes more than 44100 samples per "sender-time" second, your buffer will eventually exhaust. If it's the other way around, your buffer may overflow if the client does not handle these cases properly.
> Anyway what could happen is the client could do a little bit of > re-sampling here or there to ensure its in sync with the servers > clock. That is how streaming clients usually solve this problem, although is not really improving sound quality. Tor _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
