wideasleep1 wrote:Due to buffers, I doubt Rokus will ever be able to achieve true sync. iBridge,IIRC, got them VERY close, by just a few milliseconds in my last test...
The presence of buffers is not a problem, per se, but Roku would need to provide control of the buffers for proper syncing. From what others forum members have said in the past, the Slimserver implements syncing by telling the squeezeboxes to buffer the data but not play it. Once all devices have filled their buffers the server issues a play command, causing playback to start at the same time. If Roku implemented a similar feature I'm sure a third-party application would appear very quickly.
I manged to get brief-lived syncing when using a slimserver + roku setup, but it was painful and lost sync after a song or two. To be fair, the slimserver version I used was a few releases on from the ones roku recommended at the time.
Steve.