[Ardour-Users] OT: jack_iodelay outside jack

[Chris Caudle]

On Sun, June 27, 2021 8:09 pm, Matt Keys wrote:
> I've asked in other forums without success.

Have you tried Hydrogen Audio?  Those guys have done a lot of listening
tests.
Have you checked the opus information direct from the web site?
This page has a comparison that shows opus at 96k is high quality, but
still perceptible:
https://opus-codec.org/comparison/

Latency seems to be in the 5ms-20ms range for high bit rate opus.

> I'm trying to understand which is better for tx/rx of highest quality and
> lowest latency audio to multple remote peers - uncompressed audio

How remote?  If on a LAN you control then multicast uncompressed is both
highest quality and lowest latency.

> example jacktrrip 2 channel 48k / 128 frames), or something like opus at
> 48k 2 channel (for example webrtc using opus)?

The network protocol built into jackd can use opus (well, celt, the
immediate precursor to opus); you could start with that, compare
uncompressed and compressed using netjack1.
https://jackaudio.org/faq/netjack.html

> My focus is within a controlled
> environment like a flat wired or optical 1g or 10g ethernet.

That isn't what I would consider remote.  Just use uncompressed audio,
anything else is just adding latency and reducing audio quality for no
reason.

> Does the use of opus (and a sip stack/webrtc) add latency overall

Yes

> there efficiency gains (for example network bandwidth reduction) through
> its use?

Why do you care about network efficiency on a 10Gb or even 1Gb network in
a flat?  You can carry something like 500 channels of uncompressed audio
on a 1Gb network.  At 48k sampling that is 48k*4bytes = 192k bytes/second
= 1.55-ish Mbits/second per channel.  Even with overhead of packet headers
you can get hundreds of channels into 1000Mb/s Ethernet.

> Could this difference, if any, be measured using jack_iodelay?

Yes, as pointed out above you can just use jackd with netjack1 and switch
between uncompressed and compressed audio.
But you should only do that for the educational value, if you just want to
get audio work done just load up zita-j2n and get going, messing around
with opus on a LAN doesn't make sense.

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Chris Caudle