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Atlantis
19th February 2002, 23:09
I posted this in DVD A. section. Maybe it should be here.

Everyday you learn something new! It’s a while that I make my personal DVDs from an analog source with no audio problem.

Recently I learned about the audio delays in AC3 and know nothing about them. I want to learn more about them. My questions are:

1) Does audio delay exist in a standalone ac3 file or is it in the muxed vob file only?
2) What is audio delay? Are there physical silence in the ac3 file or is it just a flag and a number?
3) Why on earth they put audio delays on commercial DVDs anyway?
4) When I have a wav file and encode it to ac3 in Scenarist, it gives an audio
delay of 0. Should I change anything?

Atlantis
20th February 2002, 00:36
It’s funny. Now I don’t understand. To see how it all works, I ripped chapter 1 of one title and it has an audio delay of –189 ms. I also ripped separately, chapter 30 of the same title and it has an audio delay of -296 ms! How come? It's the same movie!

Slogra
20th February 2002, 00:54
Originally posted by Atlantis
It’s funny. Now I don’t understand. To see how it all works, I ripped chapter 1 of one title and it has an audio delay of –189 ms. I also ripped separately, chapter 30 of the same title and it has an audio delay of -296 ms! How come? It's the same movie!

Yeah, i had the same weirdness.