[pulseaudio-discuss] PA_STREAM_ADJUST_LATENCY with Simple API?

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Tue May 26 16:40:27 PDT 2009


On Wed, 27.05.09 01:36, Cristian Morales Vega (cmorve69 at yahoo.es) wrote:

> >> The app is a game console emulator. It doesn't needs anything special,
> >> only a low latency so video and audio are in sync.
> >
> > Hmm? For audio/video in sync you don't need low latency. All you need
> > is accurate latency measurements. Which PA provides.
> 
> Well, isn't the same case than a video player. What do you suggests?
> Delaying the video to whatever audio delay I have? In this case that
> isn't possible. The "future video" isn't deterministic, depends on
> what the user does (jump, fire, whatever), and the user will not do
> anything until he sees the image to which he has to react. So an
> unsync between audio and video is unavoidable... but it can be "low".

Right. In this case you *do* need relatively low latencies.

Lennart

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