[MEncoder-users] Howto fix audio delay

[Pete Davis]

> Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:43:13 +0200 | Florian Schulze
> <florian.proff.schulze at gmx.net>
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > I encoded videos with xvid (1.1beta from thursday) and mp3 with vbr and
> > the sound is played to late, I can adjust it with a audio delay of -
> 500ms.
> > Now I want to make that permanent in the avi. How can I do that,
> > VirtualDub chokes on the VBR.
> >
> I have heard (on this list and elsewhere) that the avi container does not
> deal with vbr
> audio very well.  You could either use cbr or the matroska container
> instead.
> 

In some cases, VBR can be a problem but it's not always a problem. In my own
case, I use a D-Link DSM 320 Media Player to play my AVIs on my TV and it
definitely has sync issues with VBR, while these same AVIs play just fine on
my computer. Re-encoding the audio to CBR fixes this in every case I have
encountered so far.

Sometimes the audio is simply out of sync, however, and re-encoding the
audio won't have any effect there.

Pete