Re: [xougen] Adding cruft to X

[William Lahti]

On Sunday 07 September 2003 4:44 pm, address@hidden wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 12:58:48PM -0700, Tupshin Harper wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > 3) Most importantly, strong synchronization. Unless the audio and
> > display information travel through the same stream, and go through the
> > same event handling API, there is no way to guarantee tight
> > coupling(e.g. <20 milliseconds) between audio and display events.
>
> Yes. Thats an problem.
>
> But we could extend both sides by an exact timing system, which allows
> us to define checkpoints where events are synchronized. The client can
> fetch exact timestamps from rtc (assuming all hosts' clocks are in sync)
> and so define exact points where an video/audio-stream should start.
>
> So it should be possible to synchronize different media servers quite
> exact.
>
>
> cu

We dont seem to have a problem with using forsay X and ESD.... All the events 
in mplayer seem perfectly synchronized with the video. 
-- 
William Lahti, aka xfury

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