[vlc] Linux audio/video device lip sync, suggestions?

[Ed Groth]

If anyone else notices this or searches this thread.

It was due to bug 4165 where the telnet input thread hogs all the CPU.

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Ed Groth <ed at boxpopuli.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We've noticed that lip sync can be very off when using vlc to stream
> audio and video from Linux v4l2 and oss devices.  W're using a sound
> card via input-slave, not the audio feed from the video device.  The
> audio is always ahead of the video, sometimes up to 3 seconds, but
> usually .3 to .5 seconds.
>
> Does anyone use vlc for streaming or recording this way, and have you
> found solutions for improving the lip sync?
>
> What is strange is that we only notice the lip sync is off when using
> the audio and video with input-slave, and not when we bridge it in
> from its own channel into a mosaic.
>
>  Ed
>