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docs: video performance — record the sound with either the line input or the webcam mic
The acoustic tools now default to a USB microphone, which also records the buzzer, so the A/V section no longer implies a cable is required.
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### What was and was not measured
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The sound is verified end to end. With a cable from the badge's headset jack to
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the host's line input, the 1 kHz sidecar beeps are recorded at full scale
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(0.5 of full scale in the 1 kHz band) and land **1.0002 s apart**, drift
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+0.16 ms/s across five of them: the sink plays the file at its own rate, without
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gaps and without resampling. An earlier estimate of the sample rate from DMA
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The sound is verified end to end. Recorded from the badge (headset jack into
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the host's line input, or the webcam microphone that the acoustic tools use by
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default), the 1 kHz sidecar beeps come back at full scale (0.5 of full scale in
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the 1 kHz band) and land **1.0002 s apart**, drift +0.16 ms/s across five of
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them: the sink plays the file at its own rate, without gaps and without
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resampling. An earlier estimate of the sample rate from DMA
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drain timing ("2.6-3.1% fast") was an artefact of that method, not a property of
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the hardware — the recorded beeps are the better instrument.
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