Re: [linux-audio-dev] Reliability of SPDIF sync w/ onboard audio?

From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 10:43:55 EET

drclaw@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> Ok, given a pair of commodity Linux PC's with cheapo onboard audio
> codecs capable of SPDIF input and output, assuming I sent identical
> input signals into both machines and didn't perform any processing in
> the middle, could I reasonably expect the output signals to be
> synchronized, or should I expect unpleasant phasing / delay effects
> when listening to both channels simultaneously as a result of the
> inherently flakey consumer-grade codecs?

Onboard codecs do not support synchronizing to an external signal. The
output frequency will always be determined by their own sample clock.

Regards,
Clemens
Received on Thu Mar 9 12:15:07 2006

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