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by bluescrn 799 days ago
Even if it’s perfectly synchronised, there’s likely no guarantee of deterministic playback. Perhaps a background process is dealing with some network activity or other OS task and throws the timing off fractionally. Or maybe a disk access (even for something in the background like streaming music) takes fractionally different amounts of time per run and affects the precise time at which the input is polled.