[CELT-dev] adding celt support to netjack some questions.

["Alexander Carôt"]

Hej Torben,

> will have a look.
> thanks for pushing me onto the right track.
> much apreciated, as it was necessary to break my ignorance somehow.

this sounds excellent. I think I am going to join you with this. Please keep me posted. Also it was good talking to you on the phone --> I will join the IRC asap :-)

Best

-- A l e x




-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:11:33 +0100
> Von: torbenh at gmx.de
> An: celt-dev at xiph.org
> Betreff: Re: [CELT-dev] adding celt support to netjack some questions.

> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 07:14:05AM -0500, Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> 
> > Why not use a jitter buffer along with a smaller audio buffer. If you
> > look at the celtclient code (in the main repo under tools/), I use a
> > jitter buffer with just 256 sample audio buffer (could be made even
> > smaller). That would also help you handle lost/reordered/late packets
> > correctly. Also, it means that you can handle any amount of jitter
> > (adaptively) without requiring a large soundcard buffer.
> 
> ok. thanks for the lesson on IRC. after sleeping over it, i am fully
> convinced :D
> 
> I hope you tolerate that after a sleepless night i needed some
> hours to understand the problem. I am new to this field.
> 
> My plan is to add a jitter buffer to the netjack components, not
> alsa_out, because alsa_out has several other use-cases which
> do not contain reordering, but only relatively small timing jitter,
> based on the CPU usage of the programs in the jack_graph.
> 
> Lets leave alsa_out out of the picture for now.
> 
> then we only have this:
> 
> soundcard irq
>      |
> (cpu usage jitter of jack-apps)
>      |
> jack_netsource
>      |
> (packet over internet)
>      |
> -> jitter_buffer
> remote_jackd
> (cpu usage jitter of whole remote jack graph)
>      |
> (reply packet over internet)
>      |
> -> jitter_buffer
> jack_netsource at a later cycle.
> (soundcard irq*N + cpu usage jitter)
> 
> 
> the cpu jitter on the local machine can be compensated exactly with
> timestamps.
> the remote cpu jitter is measured in the clock, which i would like
> to measure and drift compensate on the local end.
> 
> i have now understood what all this split approximation is about.
> the local end is almost easy. i send out a packet, and i ask the
> jitterbuffer for the packet i am interested in.
> (this is in fact already implemented, i need to look over it once more,
>  because that code was mainly intended to reassemble fragmented packets,
>  and i am not sure if isnt just doing shortcuts for the non-fragmented
>  case)
> 
> But basically the packet of interest is there or not.
> I call packets not being there network xruns.
> 
> The program needs to decide if it wants to increase the allowed
> roundtrip latency based on the xrun count.
> 
> However changing the roundtrip latency is quite expensive, due to
> jack-transport constraints. But its only expensive in one direction.
> urgs... blocked thoughts. need to paint.
> 
> The second problem is deciding when a packet is too late or lost
> on the remote end.
> 
> This decision is affected by:
> - CPU time needed to calc the response. ( <T_maxCycle, ~T_lastCycle )
> - allowed roundtrip latency (can be assumed constant)
> - net link up
> - net link down
> 
> ok... so i need to quantify the net
> its latency and jitter, while jitter is more than one number.
> 
> i guess, i am almost ready to look at your jitter buffer, and understand
> it ;D ... although from what i have seen on irc the jitterbuffer is
> actually
> looking at the speex/celt bitstream.
> 
> this stuff is beginning to boil down to control theory.
> 
> 
> > BTW, what you are doing (syncing clocks across a net connection) is
> > similar to what PulseAudio does with network audio. Maybe there's
> > code/knowledge to share here.
> 

> 
> 
> 
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> torben Hohn
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