AC3-delay under Linux

[ultimatebilly]

Hi!
I'm at the moment in the process of switching to Linux completely, and I am very satisfied with this decision (even if I have already seen some dependency-hells ;-). Now I want to start my favorite hobby under Linux, and plan to use mencoder (maybe Transcode). My only problem is this:
I'm not very good in figuring out the audio delay, probably I'm used to bad synching between mouth and speech because of all the dubbed movies I watched here in germany...
I often can't figure it out, even if the delay is rather big, for example 160ms...
That's why I am so glad that there are tools like DVD2Avi and DVDDecrypter, which tell the delay and don't make you rely on your ears.
Now I'm looking for a way to find out the delay in Linux...
I could run of course DVDDecrypter in Wine, but that's not what I want to do, because I had to rely on a Windows tool for every rip I'm doing...
Does anybody know a tool or a way to figure out the exact delay of an ac3-stream?
I would be very glad about every suggestion you can make!

[ultimatebilly]

Issue solved - well, kind of...
I should have read the great guide of Moritz Bunkus more carefully (thank you Moritz!), because it's all in there:

http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/en/single/index.html

In the mencoder-method he first uses mplayer to streamcopy the sound into an avi-file without video - this way mplayer takes care of the delay (it is obviously capable of doing so, since it plays dvds with the correct delay asserted)...
If you use the sound from this avi later on, you won't have any problems...