On 7/11/05, Hardeep Sidhu <hardeeps@pobox.com> wrote:
> The problem with using total elapsed time to determine offset is that it
> can be quite inaccurate when dealing with VBR files (see
> mp3_get_file_pos() for instance).

Of course. I knew that, but I tried too hard to simplify the problem. :-)

> The simplest, although not as accurate, solution I can think of would be
> to use the audiobuffer latency to calculate the difference between the
> current offset and the last offset returned by the codec (similar to how
> the elapsed time is calculated):
> current_offset = last_offset - (audiobuffer_get_latency() * bit_rate);

Good idea. I submitted a patch to do just that. Works great, except
it still winds up being ahead by ~1 second about 90% of the time. So
I just add another second to the latency and calculate using that.
Perhaps the accuracy of audiobuffer_get_latency() could be improved.
  

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Ryan Jackson
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