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Also, latency. I can't get over it.
by adzm 5y ago
Also, latency. I can't get over it.
- Someone1234 5y agoI have Bluetooth headphones (WH-1000XM4) that I use on a PC. They work great for music, but for video content the latency is very perceptual. It is sub-second, but you can tell actor's mouths aren't in sync. Unfortunately there isn't a lot of solutions on PC, since the platform has no control of browser based video playback and even if it did, finding the exact audio offset would be impractical.
- RNCTX 5y ago> finding the exact audio offset would be impractical. And yet you can land an airplane without looking out the windows, by measuring timestamps between source and destination of a signal (GPS). I'd argue not that impractical.
- MaulingMonkey 5y agoVLC and other video players have options to tweak video/audio latency to get them to syncronize by delaying whatever's ahead by a fixed amount to more accurately match the other. There are even chrome extensions proporting to let you tweak such syncronization for youtube, although I haven't tested them. You don't need to find the exact audio offset either - just close enough that you can't tell anymore. But this only helps with less interactive media. Adding even more latency to video games or MIDI keyboard synthesizers is counterproductive: sure, you could delay the rendering of a muzzle flash to match the playing of a gunshot, but that makes things feel even worse when you click! Maybe tolerable in a casual macro-focused RTS, but not so acceptable in a twitch shooter.
- sundvor 5y agoFortunately you can hook them up to a good soundcard quite easily! Something like the Soundblaster ZXR makes for exceptionally good headphone listening on the PC. I have the XM3 and some wired-only Audio Technicas. I only use the XM3s wired on the PC, can't stand the lag however small myself.