Still frames not synchronized

[tkircher]

When scrubbing through a video and pausing on a specific frame, to try to point something out, the other viewers were close in time but not exactly on the same frame. Was curious whether the synchronization is intended to be frame accurate or just synced to the nearest second.

Syncplay v1.7.4, VLC 3.0.23 Apple Silicon (M1)

[daniel-123]

Generally the synchronization is not expected to be frame accurate. Ping, jitter in the network and delays on video player side make that more or less an impossible goal.

That said, mpv is notably better behaved in this regard than VLC. So if you were to be using mpv, paused the video and then jumped to a specific frame, you should get frame-perfect sync. Though you'd get back to very slight desync once you unpaused.