still confused about latency

[jim nualart]

Hello all,

I've read and re-read this section several times and am embarrassed to
admit that I'm still somewhat confused.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/additional/design/latency.html?gi-language=python#query

I have a pipeline that I queried the latency on and I do see it change as I
add/remove sources. Conceptually this makes sense to me. No problem there.
But the min & max values that are returned do not. I get a min of 160ms and
a max of 100ms.

I'm having trouble reconciling those numbers with the description in the
above link.

Based on the documentation, I interpret this as "my pipeline has a maximum
latency of 160ms" AND "my pipeline can buffer 100ms of data before
blocking/dropping data". I feel like maybe I'm missing something here.

Can anyone set me straight here? I should add that my pipeline works as
expected (mostly -- it does have some small issues, but nothing close to
dropping data).

thanks in advance,
-jaime
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