[NUT-devel] [nut]: r613 - docs/nutissues.txt

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:32:56PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> > Iam not saying that there is any need or sense to store this nor that i
>> would
>> > know what a decoder would do with that information, but i do know
>> > copper purity counters will prefer NUT over other formats if the distance
>> > is stored.
>>
>> Well I would like to see some mathematical/physical reason that it's
>> potentially useful rather than the opinions of people who pay for
>> solid-gold *digital* audio cables to give their sound "more body"...
>
> Id say liquid he cooled superconductive cables are better (for digital of
> course).
>
> Anyway, technical reason:
> If the player knows the reference locations and actual locations it can
> adjust the delays to avoid unwanted interference. And no i dont know how
> well it would work in practice.
> Though with extreem cases like 1km difference it could correct the resulting
> A/V desync at least.

What if the screen is on the moon?  Then the video will have a delay
of a second or so.

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Måns Rullgård
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