Originally Posted by Ian
Originally Posted by George Mills
Jitter is not an issue until you switch to a non packet based protocal (i.e. S/PDIF).
So by this premise, HDMI, being packet based (as the audio is packed within the data island each video frame), should not suffer from jitter?

I don't know that much about HDMI. Not sure how LPCM is transmitted over HDMI. Not sure if it is packeted. Even if it is packeted, it might be the licensed HDMI chips that unpacks it may have jitter issues.

EDIT: Now if the box supported bitstream codec which packeted and it decoded in the box, I don't see how jitter would be an issue.

EDIT: Keep in mind there are different types of jitter. Low frequency drift for example in the example JK and I were talking about between one pair of speakers and another on two different network nodes could be a problem. There could be drift between the audio and video stream (I doubt that but that might be what Meridian is complaining about). The other types of jitter like peak to peak jitter should not be a problem for packeted audio (packeted implies it has to be decoded and reclocked). Perhaps there is drift between channels (I doubt that though). LPCM over HDMI might be SPDIF at different carrier frequencies or something and might be a mess. I have no idea though how it's done.

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