Hi there, Please can you offer me some advice? I am trying to play some holiday .AVI video files on my hard disk and the video / audio synchronisation is out. If I burn the file onto a DVD in DVD format (excuse the untechnical approach), the lip synch is fine. Ideally though I would like to watch a file on my PC. Do you think it is a codec or a PC performance issue? PS:- MPEGs,WMVs, etc. work fine. Many thanks Ricky

PS: I have tried several different players and they are all the same. I have also shut down all applications so the only thing running is the player, but this has no impact on the lip synch. Many thanks Ricky

Thanks for passing on that info about the DVDs being OK. I would never have thought it was possible to record a DVD with insync sound from an AVI with out of sync sound. To get good files to play, you could try ripping the DVD to mpeg2. Unfortunately, I can't recommend a ripper, but I'm sure you can find one. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

Forgot to mention that I think it's probably a codec problem. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

If it converts to DVD OK then the file itself must be OK. Must be a Codec problem. Look on www.videohelp.com for advice and downloads of codecs and DVD rippers such as DVD Decrypter. Simpler still, you may be able to just copy the VOB files from the DVD to HDD, an will probably play OK as is. If your DD creation software can create an image file on HDD, you won't even have to write the actual disc.

Check your background tasks on your computer... If sync is okay on dvd then the avi in itself is in sync... but if you are running too many backround tasks on your machine then it can throw the sync out. Also check your drive for fragmented files... this can slow things down also. And last... make sure your drives are set on DMA enabled... if it is not then you will have all kinds of sync problems.