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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Subject: Re: Sound lag over HDMI
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:14:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> I don't know what to say. I am now using HDMI audio from NVIDIA card to 
> quite old external 5.1 receiver with XBMC every day, and I haven't 
> noticed lags.
> 
> The only potentially related effect I have noticed is that my receiver 
> eats first second or about that of playback stream.

That's from the receiver examining the incoming data to see if it
is AC-3, DTS, or plain PCM.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de