• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Your video player “can” account for latency if you configure it correctly which I imagine the majority of people don’t do, and simply put up with it. Ditto with your music playback always lagging 1-2 seconds behind your control inputs. I have never used a media player on any platform that automatically figured out audio latency. Maybe the iDevices do if you pair them with Airpods, I don’t know; I don’t own anything Apple and I never will.

    It also matters for music production, and makes life a lot more pleasant for audio/video editing. Plus, latency is just annoying in any setting.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Your video player “can” account for latency if you configure it correctly which I imagine the majority of people don’t do.

      Windows and Android do this automatically out of the box, don’t know about other platforms.

      Ditto with your music playback always lagging 1-2 seconds behind your control inputs.

      Since music isn’t an interactive medium, this doesn’t really matter much (also the latency is more like 100 to 500 ms depending on a variety of factors)

      It also matters for music production, and makes life a lot more pleasant for audio/video editing

      Well of course, if you’re doing that A) this is not an application for wireless audio solutions so…uh…duh and B) you’re probably not on a phone if you take video or music production seriously 😅

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      9 hours ago

      Yes indeed, Apple’s had acceptable latency (e.g. for YouTube) since no later than 2017.

      I’ve only thought about it when specifically wondering how they pulled it off (and I assumed the phone did something slightly fancy to add a delay on the visual side)

      Glad you’ve never paid their tax in any case!

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        1 hour ago

        I don’t know about iPhone, but I’ve notice a cool trick that my Android uses is, immediately upon unpausing a video, it will play and jump the video to the point it will need to be to sync the audio, so while you may skip back a few frames initially, you do receive immediate visual feedback rather than seeing a frozen frame while waiting for the audio delay.