Disabling synchronization in udpsink for reverse playback

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On 2012-09-21 11:36, Wim Taymans wrote:
> On 09/21/2012 10:45 AM, Muzzu Daniela wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a question related to the following bug (marked as INVALID),
>> where it was proposed to disable sync in udpsink for live streams:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665435
>>
>> It has been replied that sync should be set to TRUE in all cases.
>>
>> But, what about reverse playback? The server has to send chunks in
>> reverse order, with a non-regular increase of timestamps. Does it make
>> sense to set sync property to FALSE in this case?
>>
> No, the running-time (what udpsink synchronizes to) increases
> monotonically in all cases. There is no need to disable
> sync on udpsink in any case.
>
> Wim
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Daniela
>>
>>
>>
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I'm curious - what is the benefit of leaving sync on with udpsink? The 
only reason I can think of is to prevent 100% CPU usage on the sender 
side and flooding the network, but if there is something that holds the 
sender back (for example, an alsasrc), then what other reason is there?