Jitter Buffer Depth Is a Latency Budget
Every extra buffered frame trades conversational responsiveness for tolerance to arrival variation.
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Jitter Buffers Are a Trade Between Missing Audio and Late Audio
A larger jitter buffer can hide network variation while quietly making conversation worse through extra delay.
RTP Playout Got Better When I Stopped Letting Packet Arrival Drive the Speaker
Network arrival time is not an audio clock. A stable playout schedule needs its own timing and buffer policy.
RTP Burst Measurements Need the Network and the Playout Buffer in the Same Report
Packet timing only becomes actionable when it is tied to endpoint tolerance.
A Jitter Buffer Should Absorb Arrival Variation, Not Become a Delay Bucket
More buffering reduces underruns until it starts creating latency and hiding drift.