On Nov 12 21:17 +0100, Martin Blanchard wrote: > On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 15:01 -0500, SGT. Garcia wrote: > > on a different note, there is a huge lag when using mpv to playback > > audio/video which is a problem because mpv is the main player on this > > system including web/streaming videos and that where the lag comes into > > play. i don't think the lag is mpv related and is only a problem for > > video playback for obvious reasons. > > > > i will be doing some more test tomorrow (next 24 hours) with Ethernet > > connection to see if the problem is with the wireless connection. broadcom > > sucks as we all know and this system uses their wl wireless driver which > > doesn't do 11n despite what it's advertised for... > > RAOP has a ~2sec latency by design. Anyway, the current pulseaudio sink > does not correctly report this latency. This results in synchronization > problem between player (mpv here) and output stream. This is a known > issue; mpv is not to be blamed here, and your network stack is probably > not either... network improvement, in this case moving the machine from 2.4GHz channel to 5GHz, did have a slight improvement effect; playing *playlists* (something like mpv *.flac) is now uninterrupted.
