Digital Audio via IP
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7.2.1.
One IP-packet carries more than one frame
This would be the normal way of audio transport in a situation described above. As you
can see in the following figure, the first IP-packet carries not only the first audio frame but
also parts of the second one. The second IP-packet carries the rest of Audio 2 and parts of
Audio 3. IP-packet 3 carries the rest of Audio 3 and Audio 4 etc..
7.2.2.
One frame is carried by more than one IP-packet
In specific situations, e.g. if the bit rate is high and the sample rate is low, the frame length can be
larger than the packet size. In this case the first IP-packet would only carry parts of the first audio
and IP-packet 2 the rest etc..
In both situations it is necessary to get access to the frame header to be able to read the
information about frame length, bit rate, sample rate etc.. How to get this information is
dealt with in the following chapter.
Audio 1
Encoder
Decoder
Transport
Audio 2
Audio 3
Audio 4
Audio
Audio
Audio 1
Audio 2
Audio 3
Audio 4
IP
IP packet 1
IP packet 2
IP packet 3
IP packet 4
Audio 1
Audio 2
Audio 3
Audio 4