Re:Netflix is not a tech company (2019)
by maerF0x0 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:01PM
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On different hardware how do they synchronize the playback speed? Each device has very different processing environment, so I cant imagine it would be easy to ensure that exact of playback speed. eg maybe one is playing 30 frames per second, and the other is playing 29.85 ...
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Re:Netflix is not a tech company (2019)
by snovv_crash on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:18PM
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Double or drop the occasional frame I guess? Audio is easier to stretch because it is stored as frequency components already.
Re:Netflix is not a tech company (2019)
by ComputerGuru on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:32PM
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Audio is easier to stretch but audio should also never be stretched because we are extremely perceptive to it in a way that we aren’t with our visual processing abilities.
Video should always be kept in sync with audio and not the other way around. You can freely drop or repeat video frames (within the boundaries of reason) without anyone being able to detect it in a blind test, but audio should not be messed with. This is why when syncing audio and video from different sources during production, the master clock is always the audio.
Re:Netflix is not a tech company (2019)
by snovv_crash on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:36AM
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Video conferencing already does massive audio compression (>2x speedup) to compensate for temporarily dropped connections. 30.5s of audio delivered over 30s isn't noticeable if you keep the frequencies the same, which is more than adequate for multiple people watching a movie together.