Patent ID: 7421048

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a first multimedia processing device, a first offset value representative of a frequency offset between a first clock signal of a first clock source and a second clock signal of a second clock source of a second multimedia processing device, the first clock signal driving a multimedia encoder of the second multimedia processing device and the second clock signal driving a network interface of the second multimedia processing device; determining, at the first multimedia processing device, a second offset value representative of a frequency offset between the second clock signal and a third clock signal of a third clock source, the third clock signal driving a network interface of the first multimedia processing device; adjusting a fourth clock signal of a fourth clock source of the first multimedia processing device based on the first offset value and the second offset value to generate an adjusted fourth clock signal, the adjusted fourth clock signal driving a multimedia decoder of the first multimedia processing device; receiving, at the network interface of the first multimedia processing device, an encoded multimedia data stream from the network interface of the second multimedia processing device, wherein the encoded multimedia data stream is encoded based on the first clock signal; and decoding the encoded multimedia data stream at the multimedia decoder based on the adjusted fourth clock signal.