Posted by Jerry Avins on 12/23/95 11:28

Radium wrote:
> Andrew Reilly wrote:
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>
>>Why would you want the read speed to be different from the "bit-rate", on
>>average?
>
>
> Its not a question of wanting. Isn't it true that the bit-rate and the
> read-speed don't necessarily have to be the same?
>
>
>>The alternatives are under-run or unbounded buffering.
>
>
> Whats are these?
>
>
>>What
>>other significance do you hold for the term "bit rate"?
>
>
> How many bits transferred per in a specific period of time = bit-rate
>
> There is a difference between *sample* rate and *bit* rate.

Yes. With 16 bits in a sample -- pretty high-quality audio -- and a bit
rate of 0.000000000000000000000000000001 bits/second, there would be a
wait of 507,009,405,024,463,203,792,430 years between samples.

Jerry
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