SBGK wrote: 
> so borrowing from Pippin
> 
> Packetized network traffic->NIC->Network driver->flac -> sox ->decode
> buffer->play buffer->aplay -> pcm -> kernel -> drivers -> device
> 
> There is code to fill a decode buffer and then copy that to a play
> buffer, perhaps the efficiency of that is different between flac and
> wav. Is sox decoding a batch of data at a time ?
> 
> I've always found wav to sound better than flac whether it was on pc or
> sbt or apple Touch, flac would have a difference in timing which wasn't
> present with wav.
> 
> I use flac for archive, so am happy that after conversion the data is
> the same, it's just the effect of decoding at the same time.

For WiFi you are missing "AES decryption"



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