Cheese webcam software - audio and video out of sync

[Bill Davidsen]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I was just playing around with Cheese on my Lenovo T510 laptop. It's a
> relatively fast laptop, with a pretty new i7 CPU and 8GB memory.
>
> I noticed that, even at the lowest resolution possible, I get a bad audtio
> delay. In other words, when I play back the video, my lips move but the sound
> follows like three seconds later.
>
Before getting too upset, try playing the video with other players like mplayer 
or vlc. I have found that some recording formats and players don't work well, 
can't give you a definitive why. I have recoded a number with ffmpeg to get 
around this and get a format which works in more places.


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