Re: [Jack-Devel] Writing an IEEE 802.1BA (AVB) compliant network backend for Jack2

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DateTue, 01 Mar 2011 22:08:52 +0100
From Arnold Krille <[hidden] at arnoldarts dot de>
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In-Reply-Totorbenh Re: [Jack-Devel] Writing an IEEE 802.1BA (AVB) compliant network backend for Jack2
On Tuesday 01 March 2011 04:45:48 torbenh wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 07:59:01PM -0600, Duncan Gray wrote:
> > To implement AVB, the intention (as far as Jack would be concerned)
> > would be to get a NIC card that will most definitely implement the
> > timing protocol. A consumer app that only does streaming is the
> > "killer app"; and that was the only concern of Broadcom and Marvell
> > -- who were major participants. This does not concern itself with
> > latency, but rather with delivery. These apps stream with virtual
> > timing from disk. Then the reproduce to iPods that will recover
> > timing as cheaply as possible to achieve robust buffering with
> > fairly low jitter playback.
> i dont really understand this.
> you mean streaming from harddisk to multiple endpoints,
> all playing phase synced ?

Phase synced samples is a requirement for AES and thus Ravenna, not for 
general avb.

Have fun,

Arnold
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