wrapping my head around clocksync

[ruben malchow]

hi again,


i have now come up with this:

server:
     gst-launch-1.0   uridecodebin uri="[mp3 stream]"   ! audioconvert   !
lamemp3enc    ! queue   ! tcpserversink host=192.168.71.163  port=4999

client:
     gst-launch-1.0   tcpclientsrc host=192.168.71.163 port=4999
do-timestamp=true   ! decodebin   ! audioconvert   ! queue   ! clocksync !
alsasink sync=false

... and this gives me a playable stream, and sync is ok over a LAN between
several VMs ... but that's pure luck and the fact that it's a virtual setup
with no wifi or competing traffic involved. i have to say though that even
if one client is off (e.g. in the beginning), it usually converges again
after a second or two.

some issues:
   - i wanted to use vorbis. not doing thet b/c it seems the problem with
the format specification on the client side is not really solvable.
   - i am not using rtppay / depay here - mostly because i dont know which
one to use on mp3
   - the second i set "sync" to "true", it essentially stops working - it
still plays short pieces every now and then, but no continuous stream

i think i am probably making some mistakes. what's missing?

.rm










On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:08 PM ruben malchow <ruben.malchow at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> hi,
>
> i am currently using a handcompiled version 1.17.1 on fedora to play with
> the new clocksync element. to test cross-host syncing, i have three
> identical VMs, one acting as the "server", and two acting as "clients".
> currently, i am trying to get a basic setup to work with udpsink and
> udpsrc, although eventually, i would love to be able to tcp-stream vorbis.
>
> my issues start at the very beginning: the second i start introducing
> clocksync, things get extremely choppy. so this works fine:
>
> gst-launch-1.0 uridecodebin uri="http://[mp3 stream]" ! audioconvert !
> queue !  alsasink
>
> while this:
>
> gst-launch-1.0 uridecodebin uri="http://[mp3 stream]" ! audioconvert !
> queue ! clocksync ts-offset=100000 !  alsasink
>
> gets extremely choppy (for any value of ts-offset)
>
> what i really want is to have this:
>
> server
>    [any source] -> [normalize] -> [vorbis enc] ->  [tcp server sink]
>
> clients:
>    [tcpclientsrc] -> [vorbis dec] -> [clocksync] -> [alsa]
>
> tcp or udp multicast doesnt really make a difference now - the point is
> more that i dont really have a good grasp of the model behind all this to
> easily build this. also, documentation on how to configure the clock is ...
> sparse? i would appreciate any simple examples and hints regarding the sync
> (which is, in my opinion, a really great addition).
>
> .rm
>
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