Hi Luke... stuart 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.
Well, got my hands on a real squeezbox (2 I think, the flat one) and tested synchronizing between it and two MVPMC boxes. I couldn't get the real squeezbox and an MVPMC box to synchronize. The MVPMC box must have had more buffer memory because it was always seconds behind the squeezebox. However I was a bit more successful with the two MVPMC boxes. At first they were not synchronized. But after starting and stopping the music they stayed in sych for the entire track. Before anyone goes out and buys multiple MVPMC boxes I would like to do more testing. However, I was surprised as how well it worked - at least for the one track. ...later ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
