Getting further OT was Re: Video Server

Rich Braun richb at pioneer.ci.net
Wed Dec 7 13:08:00 EST 2005


Robert La Ferla <robertlaferla at comcast.net> wrote:
> These are the three most common consumer video cables.  They are all
> video-only.

And I've noticed that, as a result of the fact that video/audio cabling are
separate not only for consumers but also for producers, distributors and
broadcasters, audio is increasingly out-of-sync from the video whenever you
watch digital TV.

> There is a new standard called HDMI <http://www.hdmi.org>
> which combines audio/video in a single cable.

Any chance there will ever be a standard for tagging video frames with timing
marks  to match similar timing marks in an audio stream?  It doesn't seem like
a hard technical problem.  It drives me nuts watching WCVB-DT or one of the
other digital channels and seeing the mouths move several hundred milliseconds
out-of-sync with the audio.

-rich




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