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I've never had any audio sync problems with Handbrake, then again I've never done anything 'exotic' (basically encode my dvd's to x264+audio passthrough) and ev

• josteink 12y ago
  Back when you wanted to encode a DVD to the size of one (or maybe two) CDs, having audio-passthrough was not an option. You typically re-encoded the data from 384-448kbps (for AC3-surround) down to 128kbps stereo. For that you used MP3 audio. I also recall the earlier Frauenhofer MP3 codecs incorrectly reported audible length of chunk-sizes (or something like that) causing incremental audio-skew and sync-issues with the corresponding video the longer into the movie you came. It seemed impossible to fix and was terribly frustrating. Eventually the tools caught up and patched up the data, or we got better tools (like lame) which didn't produce the faulty artefacts to begin with. Maybe this is what he's talking about, as the Frauenhofer MP3-codec was very much a Windows-only thing.