Getting further OT was Re: Video Server

[Robert La Ferla]

Rich Braun wrote:
> Any chance there will ever be a standard for tagging video frames with timing
> marks  to match similar timing marks in an audio stream?  It doesn't seem like
> a hard technical problem.  It drives me nuts watching WCVB-DT or one of the
> other digital channels and seeing the mouths move several hundred milliseconds
> out-of-sync with the audio.
>   

There are standards (e.g. SMPTE timecode) but I'm not sure about what 
consumer equipment uses them.  It could very well be that your problem 
has to do with a slow CPU or poorly design system rather than the lack 
of standard.  What are you using to watch tv?  Is it on a PC or via a 
cable box?

SMPTE
http://www.smpte.org