Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 01:01:12PM +0200, Pieter Palmers wrote: >> Florian Faber wrote: >>> Peter, >>> >>>> I doubt that it is easy over a transport protocol that doesn't have a >>>> global absolute time reference (like ethernet). >>> What time reference do you have in mind on ethernet that can be used as >>> word clock source? >> My formulation is a bit unfortunate. I mean that ethernet does NOT have >> a global absolute time reference. And word clock is not a time >> reference. It's a 'rate' reference, which does not contain absolute time >> information. What you need to output signals on different devices with >> sample accurate phase is an absolute time reference. Which ethernet does >> not have. > > The solution I'm using in this case is to distribute > a single audio signal (similar to the one used in jdelay) > to all computers. The signal can be decoded into a sub- > sample accurate time, and all network data are timestamped > using this time scale.
Now that is a clever solution! Simple and elegant... Greets, Pieter _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
