Cheese webcam software - audio and video out of sync

[Thomas Cameron]

On 09/11/2012 09:17 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, tried with VLC, Totem and others, all with the same issues.

TC