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0 pointst345436y ago0 comments

My use case for whole home audio is to play audio of a sports game that’s playing on TV in the living room.

500ms of latency is far too much. Even Sonos suffers from this with port/connect

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Isn’t this a case where you delay the video on the TV side to match the latency of the audio? I assume your TV has an option for audio delay.

The problem that I’d see is that you probably don’t have this setup all the time, so switching your TV back and forth for an audio delay would be annoying. That and 500 ms might be more of a delay than your TV can handle.

t34543OP6y ago

Audio source is my receiver which does not offer this functionality. You’re right, config management will be painful.

Receiver runs Linux and I did get a shell on it, but to be honest this is something I would rather just pay for. I don’t want to risk bricking it.

ghostpepper6y ago

I'm curious which receiver(s) run Linux

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jessaustin6y ago

ISTM they could just have a different mode for the system that lowers latency and increases droppage. For a sportscast the occasional pop or crackle wouldn't hurt anything.

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