[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
In fact, the solution suggested only works if there's only one listener. In a mass audience situation, you have to maintain directional coherence and make the entire air mass move as one. Meaning all the speakers have to be pointing more or less the same way. It only has much of a chance of working in a stadium or something like that, an open air concert or so. Almost impossible to do in a house. And yes, he wrote it backwards. I'm sure it was a slip of the lip. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
I don't use wireless ...too unreliable. All the SB's are 100baseT and are virtually flawless. The problem with putting in a delay is what happens when you are walking between rooms? How do you know which one is the "nearest" one if you are walking about? I'm very happy with my current syncing situation. -- krosfyah krosfyah's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5194 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
shourly the one closest to you should be behind as the sound from the others is going to take longer to get to you, so you would have to match that delay with the one closest? but when the two units are quite close together (one of mine is in the bedroom, the other is in the living room of a one bedroom appartment) it works well when they are syc'ed perfectly -- funkstar funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
krosfyah Wrote: > > I might buy the Roku anyway and hook it up to my entertainment system > which is on another floor. If the boxes are 1/2 second off between > floors, I don't really care since I can't hear the difference anyway. > Anybody forsee any problems doing this? If you plan on using it wireless: it only supports WEP. I wouldn't allow any network of mine to do WEP... As for synchronization, I'm never clear on why you would want it -exactly- synced. You would actually want multiple devices slightly out of sync to deal with sound propogation delays. If they were exactly in phase and you could hear one room from another: they would always sound out of phase. The trick is that the one closest to you should be 'ahead' of all the others... -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
UPDATE: Well I plugged in my buddy's Roku 1000 and my Slimserver immediately detected it and I started playing music in <60 seconds. HOWEVER, I added it to my sync list and my SB and the Roku both cranked up but were almost immediately out of sync. Completely unusable. I might buy the Roku anyway and hook it up to my entertainment system which is on another floor. If the boxes are 1/2 second off between floors, I don't really care since I can't hear the difference anyway. Anybody forsee any problems doing this? -- krosfyah krosfyah's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5194 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
On the Roku web site it says it only works with 5.2.1. If true, you have a problem because 5 didn't support SB2s. -- Michaelwagner Michaelwagner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
krosfyah Wrote: > Okay, then there is some hope syncing with a Roku afterall. > > Since I do have a buddy with a Roku, I'll see if he is willing to pull > it out for me. He owes me some favors anyway. I'll post my results. My experience with the Roku's SlimServer emulation would suggest that they won't sync. The buffer on the Roku is a different size, and it immediately begins playback once the buffer fills (it doesn't wait for the command from SlimServer to start playing, which is essential for proper synchronization). You may have some limited success, but I wouldn't count on it working too well. TheEndless -- TheEndless TheEndless's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1375 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
Okay, then there is some hope syncing with a Roku afterall. Since I do have a buddy with a Roku, I'll see if he is willing to pull it out for me. He owes me some favors anyway. I'll post my results. -- krosfyah krosfyah's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5194 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
While Ken's response is relevant and helpful to the problem at hand, I just wanted to correct him on the transcoding details. When syncing multiple boxes with different capabilities, the server will fall back to the capabilities of the weakest box. In other words, in Ken's example, when the SB2 and SB1 are synched, the flac decoding is happening on the server for *both* units and *both* units are receiving raw pcm (unless you have bitrate limiting on, in which case both are receiving mp3). -- azinck3 azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Roku and SB synchronization
I found that an SB1 & SB2 would sync, playing flac files, but would generally fall out of sync after a few tracks. This could perhaps have been addressed by transcoding to wave on the server for both but I was just letting things default so the SB1 stream was transcoded to wave on the server and the SB2 was doing the transcoding from flac to wave. Sorry not fully helpful, Ken -- Ken Ken's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=957 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23356 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
