[Asterisk-Dev] ast_frame

[steve at daviesfam.org]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Ben Kramer wrote:

> Now onto the subject title! I noticed in the ast_frame structure that
> there is a delivery timeval struct. I cant determine if this is a time
> stamp or not. Could I use this to determine if the audio frames I have
> received are old, and are safe to drop ?

Some channels stick the "arrival time" of the frame in there as the frame 
arrives.  chan_iax, for one, calculates an arrival time that is the 
theoretical arrival time that the frame SHOULD have had in the absence of 
network delay.

Other times it'll be empty.

Steve