Patent ID: 8689036

Claim:
A digital data processing device comprising: an interface to receive multimedia information arranged as a plurality of frames, each frame to include one or more samples and a time stamp for playback of the one or more samples in a frame; an information buffer to store the plurality of frames for play back by the digital data processing device, wherein the digital data processing device is to receive clock information from a source device and determine a time differential value between the received clock information and clock information associated with the digital data processing device, the time differential value to be applied to the time stamp for each of the plurality of frames to store an updated time stamp for each of the plurality of frames in the information buffer; and an output to play back one or more samples in a frame from the information buffer according to the updated time stamp for the frame, wherein the digital data processing device is to adjust, based on a comparison between the updated time stamp for the frame and a predicted time value for play back of the frame, a number of samples per frame that are to be played.