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Re: internet dreaming

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2005-12-03 21:06

sfalexi wrote:

> If video conferencing is in, and they can minimize the delay
> until it's virtually 0 seconds, it might work.

Physics gets in the way, along with switch & traffic induced latency. Have you ever been on an international phone call? That's almost the theorectical minimum latency, and would be hell in ensemble playing. Marching bands spread over the field are already bad enough ... If everyone plays at the same time they'll sound "wrong" to an observer, who hears the music as if it players are starting at different times (literally a "spread sound" ...)

The latency over the Internet tends to have longer latencies on average and worse, it fluctuates randomly. That's why all the audio and video players buffer a certain amount of information before playing .

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