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reggieband on Dec 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player

> The encoded chunk is sent via a TCP connection to the Snapclients.

I wonder why TCP? For streaming media I would expect UDP, RTP or even RTMP to be better. Maybe even something newer like QUIC.

edit: in fact, isn't RTP/RTCP made for exactly this purpose? The streaming/synchronization of media?

mongol on Dec 30, 2019 | [–]

Some elaborations here

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/issues/305

mypalmike on Dec 31, 2019 | [–]

RTP with RTCP is designed for streaming but not specifically multi listener synchronisation. They are not transport protocols - UDP and TCP are both commonly used for transport.

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