Sound delay on Android tablet

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J Clement
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Sound delay on Android tablet

Post by J Clement »

I created an MP4 with subtitles. It plays perfectly on my PC, but on my Commander/Freevi tablet there is a progressive delay in the sound.

The video was created from a large AVI with Lagarith/wave audio encoding. I always do complicated editing using lossless encoding. The AVI plays perfectly.

Handbrake 1.1.1 64bit

A copy of the video plays perfectly across the web from:
https://archive.org/details/LieutenantKizhe1934Restored
The cannon shots around 1:12:00 are obviously out of sync on my tablet. I tried 3 different players:
The default player, sView, TriDef Galler
sView played the best. Admittedly it is an old tablet, but other videos have played perfectly including HD 3D Side by Side MP4 rips.



Log: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8isqps6iam56d ... 6.txt?dl=0
Woodstock
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Re: Sound delay on Android tablet

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First question, does encoded MP4 play with delayed audio on a PC or Mac? Isolating where the problem exists will help with fighting the problem.

One of my Android tablets (v3.something Android) always has unsynchronized audio on MKV files (MP4 plays fine), and it's worse with the higher the audio bitrate, the faster it becomes out of sync. The sync was fine on other devices.

Does it also go out of sync if you use, say, the AC3 encoder instead of AAC?
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Re: Sound delay on Android tablet

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The video was created from a large AVI with Lagarith/wave audio encoding. I always do complicated editing using lossless encoding. The AVI plays perfectly.
That's likely part of the problem, which has been reported with other AVI codecs as well.

Suggest you try XAVC-I, DNxHD, or ProRes for your digital intermediate rather than AVI.

I also understand Magic YUV is now supported in Handbrake, and may have fewer sync issues.
J Clement
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Re: Sound delay on Android tablet

Post by J Clement »

Thanks for the tips. But I had the same problem with Magix YUV, but on some players shorter delay. So I tried making a video with burned in subtitles and it worked perfectly. The problem is with the closed captioned subtitling. Even when the captions are not being displayed, there is a delay in the audio which is player dependent on an Android tablet, but not on my Win 10 PC.
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Re: Sound delay on Android tablet

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