[vorbis-dev] timestamping / latency

John Morton
Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:02:02 -0000

On Friday 09 January 2004 23:08, Olaf Matthes wrote:
>  Hi there,
>
>  for a streaming application developed for a project at the Society for
>  Arts and Technology Montreal, Canada, we would need to know the exact
>  delay of our ogg/vorbis streams.

[etc]

>  Since we're trying to get the shortest latency possible another
problem
>  came up: in general it seems that the larger the bitrate the lower the
>  latency (i.e. the decoder starts earlier to output some audio data).

The short answer is that vorbis isn't designed for low latency applications.
This usually isn't a problem for net streaming except for special cases like
voice over IP, in which case you'd probably want to look at speex.

The long answer is that it depends on how low you need the latency to be.
What's the application you had in mind?

John