[Speex-dev] Dropped speex packets

[Jean-Marc Valin]

> I cant seem to find any mention of it in the documentation, what is the 
> correct way of handling dropped Speex packets (can I just decode the frame 
> after the dropped one twice and play it twice?). 

When you don't receive a packet, just pass NULL as the "bits" argument
of the decoder. Then when you receive the next packet, you decode it as
usual.

> 15~20% packet drop simulated with speexdec still sounds OK, but I assume it is 
> randomly distributed. How many in a row can be dropped before it becomes a 
> problem? 

Indeed, speexdec simulates random distribution, which isn't very
realistic, but it's more for simple testing so I didn't feel like doing
a Markov model. As for "how many in a row will cause problems", it
depends on the audio, where the packets are lost and what you define as
a problem -- just try it!

	Jean-Marc