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<blockquote data-quote="tourettes" data-source="post: 828363" data-attributes="member: 10858">Stream corruption / randomly corrupted data could be caused many different things - most of the time it is bad signal. For example:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Long DPC latency caused by some driver (BDA driver has no change to deliver data and some of it needs to be discarded)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Buggy BDA driver</li>
</ul>Well, I have seen corrupted recordings on my own HTPC where some dropouts were affecting only the audio. Remember that it is completely random where the corruption usually hits. Transport Stream packets are 188 bytes long, and one packet carries only audio or video (or subtitle etc.). So with an extra bad luck you could have 1 hour long period of corrupted audio data and not a single hickup in video stream. Quite unlikely event, but losing 1 second of audio is much more likely (it depends much on the encoding and decoders how much a single lost audio packet will drop the audio stream in the decoding phase).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tourettes, post: 828363, member: 10858"] Stream corruption / randomly corrupted data could be caused many different things - most of the time it is bad signal. For example: [list] [*] Long DPC latency caused by some driver (BDA driver has no change to deliver data and some of it needs to be discarded) [*] Buggy BDA driver [/list] Well, I have seen corrupted recordings on my own HTPC where some dropouts were affecting only the audio. Remember that it is completely random where the corruption usually hits. Transport Stream packets are 188 bytes long, and one packet carries only audio or video (or subtitle etc.). So with an extra bad luck you could have 1 hour long period of corrupted audio data and not a single hickup in video stream. Quite unlikely event, but losing 1 second of audio is much more likely (it depends much on the encoding and decoders how much a single lost audio packet will drop the audio stream in the decoding phase). [/QUOTE]

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