** RC1 AV Sync Issue ** -> Read me before upgrade

I am on RC2!

I am on XBMCbuntu with an ati card directly plugged into my tv via hdmi no av system and am trying to understand what is going on.

I had no issue on sync in beta 3.

Is it that in RC2 there is a new patch which is autocalculating a a delay it thinks there should be and that I need to say to xbmc actually, you dont need to do anything by entering this in advanced settings:

<video>
<!-- Compensate display latency (video lag). Latency is given in msecs. -->
<latency>

<!-- Global default display latency -->
<delay>0</delay>
</latency>

</video>

Edited to add that I am on RC2 and this is happening.

I added this:
<video>
<!-- Compensate display latency (video lag). Latency is given in msecs. -->
<latency>

<!-- Global default display latency -->
<delay>0</delay>
</latency>

</video>

same, but I have noticed it is happening on ac3 sound and not mp3 sound.
What do I need to do? Please help.

You should not have to explicitly enter anything in RC2 if you dont' experience global delays or delays based on movie fps. RC1 required some entry, RC2 doesn't.

A delay in a specific codec e.g. AC3 is most likely due to your receiver/TV processing times, and is adjustable for using the standard in-movie delay accessed by the OSD, audio pop-up.

I think its an issue that I have just not noticed before.

Interestingly it stays in sync if I dont use the auto refresh rate changer on both ac3 and mp3. The delay I need to set seems to be -200 on the problem files. (ac3)

The headache I have now is that I have hundreds of kids tv shows in 24p some with ac3 and some with mp3 and the kids cant manage the offset by themselves.

How do people get round this? I suppose I could leave the auto refresh off but then my smooth playback goes out the window.

Can a delay be set for a specific series/season?

bilbonvidia Wrote:I think its an issue that I have just not noticed before.

Interestingly it stays in sync if I dont use the auto refresh rate changer on both ac3 and mp3. The delay I need to set seems to be -200 on the problem files. (ac3)

The headache I have now is that I have hundreds of kids tv shows in 24p some with ac3 and some with mp3 and the kids cant manage the offset by themselves.

How do people get round this? I suppose I could leave the auto refresh off but then my smooth playback goes out the window.

Can a delay be set for a specific series/season?

Only manually at this time (in the Video OSD) I'm afraid. Just to try, what happens if you let XBMC decode your AC3 by disabling AC3 passthrough in your System>Audio Output settings. May be a workaround. Short of another GPU that's all I can suggest.

Thanks for the suggestion, I have tried many things and cant get it to work consistenly but I was looking for a quieter card anyways so will be purchasing a gt430 soonish, hopefully this will help!

Just to say that I got a nvidia gt430 and now I have no synch issues whatsoever that I have noticed. Yippee.
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