[pulseaudio-discuss] RTP output time between packets

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/8/22 Emil Ohlsson <emo at svep.se>:
> Hi!
>
> I've noticed that when playing music (*.ogg/*.mp3 files using VLC) there is a very uneven delay between the RTP packets compared to when streaming silence. Is it possible to configure some buffer to make to the time between two packets more equidistant?

This is the result of vlc sending chunks of audio at a time, probably
due to a large buffer from pulseaudio. Perhaps requesting a lower
latency helps. (The easiest way to test that is just to open up
pavucontrol)

As long as the receiving end has a big enough buffer, the delivery of
rtp packets in batches should not matter much though, assuming
low-latency is nog a requirement. How is the receiving end configured?

Maarten

> Thanks in advance
> Emil Ohlsson