Syncronising a multicast audio stream

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I'm trying to set up a multicast stream, playing mp3s to various computers around my house. Have managed to get it working, but of course the audio comes out of the computers out of sync. Is there any way of syncing the outputs, or is this a well-known problem with streaming?

[dionoea]

You can use the netsync module. On the server, just add the option "--netsync-master" and on the clients (those who actually play the stream), add the option "--netsync-master-ip <ip of the server>".

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Ooh didn't know anything about that. I'll check it out. Thanks!

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Is it possible to control the netsync properties through the Telnet or RC interfaces, rather than at startup?

I occasionally play stuff from a different computer to my master, so will need to change the netsync stuff to point to that one, and don't really want to have to restart vlc to do it!

Thanks

[dionoea]

You can change it in the preferences if you use the GUI... but i don't know if that takes effect if you don't restart VLC.

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Ok. Well if I really don't want to restart vlc, I could always stream the file from the other computer to the main computer, and then stream it to everyone from there!