Re: [gNewSense-users] audio to video lag while watching avi file with VLC

[Andrew Wigglesworth]

On Thursday 26 July 2007 13:51:10 andrei raevsky wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I am using VLC to watch various downloads and often there seems to be a lag
> between the video and the audio, the latter coming about 1sec after the
> video.  While certainly not bleeding edge, my computer is not a totally
> antiquated one either: a Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) 1GB proc, 512MB
> RAM, plenty of HD space.
>
> Does anyone know what causes such a lag and how I could fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

I don't know what sometimes causes the lag, something to do with proprietary 
encoders no doubt :-/

However, I've found that re-encoding using ffmpeg2theora using the --sync 
operator usually sorts things out.



-- 
Andrew