On 24/06/07, stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Luke...
Luke Corkill wrote:
> Hi,
> I currently have one MVP and am very happy with it (mainly using it
> for mythtv and mclient). I'm thinking of buying a second MVP box to
> use just with mclient.
>
> I'm aware that the slimserver supports synchronisation of audio
> between hardware players;
>
> http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?Synchronization
>
> I've only had limited success synchronising my MVP box with the java
> based softsqueeze (the wiki warns this doesn't work well).
>
> My question is has anyone tried synchronising mclient across two MVP
> boxes? Des it work well?
>
> Thanks
>
> Luke.
>
I always assumed this wouldn't work well and never really tried it. But
I recall others saying differently. The MediaMVP's hardware buffers up
several seconds of music and the management of this resource hasn't been
clear to me (note, sometimes, at the beginning of a session, you hear
the start of the first track twice and sometimes the first second or
two are skipped - (i.e. the difference between not resetting the
hardware buffers and resetting them (tricky trying to figure out which
to do for a given situation!))).
I can try some experiments over the next few days and get back to you.
Regardless of how this turns out, I would recommend not to mix hardware.
That is, it may be near impossible to synchronize between a
Slimdevices box and a MediaMVP box because of differences in hardware.
I assume the way the slimserver does this is to issue a "buffer reset"
command to all clients. It's been a while and I'll have to check if
that feature is in MClient. Of course, if it's working as I expect it
to, that will cause the first several seconds of music to be skipped on
all MVPMC boxes.
Stuart,
Thanks. I can't afford two Squeezeboxes so I think I'll go for a low-tech
solution of connecting a second amplifier to my MVP box to provide
synchronised audio in the second room.
Luke.
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