[Speex-dev] Who is using the jitter buffer?

[Steve Kann]

Thorvald Natvig wrote:

>> I'd like know about anyone using the current jitter buffer in Speex. I'm
>> planning on changing it to make it more general and I'd like some
>> feedback about how to make it better. Also, let me know if you're doing
>> anything serious with it and want to make sure I don't break your stuff.
>>
>> Basically, I want to make the jitter buffer easier to use with other
>> codecs and reduce the latency. This would require either changing the
>> API or adding a new one (depending on the feedback I get and how many
>> people use it).
>
>
> I'm currently using the jitter buffer in Mumble, but if you want to 
> make changes go right ahead, I can just change the places where I've 
> plugged in the jitter buffer.
>
> If users are bandwidth-constrained, I provide an option for putting 
> several individual speex packets in one UDP packet. While I'm not 
> sure, I do believe the jitter buffer would probably benefit from 
> knowing that packets always come in pairs.


I would think you might also do better if you interleaved packets when 
you did this: instead of sending packets like this: [0,1] [2,3] [4,5] 
[6,7], send them like this: [0,2] [1,3] [4,6] [5,7] In this way, if one 
packet is dropped you don't lose two consecutive voice frames.

-SteveK