Audio sync adjuster?

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live Streaming
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I just bought the WD TV Live SMP and I love it! However, I was expecting to be able to adjust the audio delay in cases where the lip sync was out, and I can’t find this feature. I have a horribile feeling that I read about it in relation to the older model, the TV Live Plus, so perhaps it was removed - although that strikes me as an insane thing to do to such an obviously useful feature.

Can anyone shed any light on this please? Thanks!

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When your file is playing, hit the OPTIONS button and scroll down.   

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Thanks for the help, but unfortunately I’m still confused. When I do as you suggest, I see:

Menu

Subtitle

Audio

Get Content Info

Audio just leads me to a menu of audio formats I think (AC3,DTS).

FYI: I’m playing DVD content directly from a VIDEO_TS folder using a SMB share from a ReadyNAS RAID.

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Ah…  Ok.  

Unfortunately, the audio sync (and many other options) don’t apply to DVD if you’re in navigation mode.

If you turn off DVD menus, then all the other options are available.

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Oh, OK - well, I am little disappointed, but also kind of relieved to hear that I wasn’t misinformed about the feature existing.

I can’t think why they are not able to apply it to DVD playback though, that’s a little odd! I don’t see myself using the “without menus” option much, to be honest - I like to be able to skip through chapters etc. and access commentaries etc., and since I have DVD folder images it’s not easy to find the right video file otherwise :frowning:

Thank you for your answer though!

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Probably because DVDs are seldom (ever?) out of sync. 

It’d be pretty bad for DVDs to be authored with audio problems… :wink:   The audio sync delay is mostly used with user-created media that are poorly encoded.

If you’re having problems with audio sync in DVD material, you might want to see if your AVR system has an adjustment for sync.

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Ah, OK - yes, that makes sense. I do sometimes see very slight audio sync drift on DVDs, but now that you come to mention it, it’s usually very tiny. I can actually spot a 1-frame offset, so I guess I’m unusual! Certainly 2 frames is rare, and more than that is unheard of I think. Obviously we’re talking mainly about sync problems that are in the original movie here, but it does happen.

Audio sync problems can be really annoying for us musicians - there’s nothing worse than watching someone play a solo on YouTube and trying to follow the notes, then finding out they’re being played about 0.2 seconds before you hear them!