Windows MCE - lipsync

[Brendan]

I am running Vista Home Premium on a Dell XPS 420 desktop. I am using a
Hauppauge USB TV tuner. Whereas the picture and sound quality on media
Centre are excellent there is a distracting problem, on TV reception, as the
sound is out of sync with the lip movements. Anybody help please?

 

[nick]

I am running Vista Home Premium on a Dell XPS 420 desktop. I am using a
Hauppauge USB TV tuner. Whereas the picture and sound quality on media
Centre are excellent there is a distracting problem, on TV reception, as the
sound is out of sync with the lip movements. Anybody help please?

If you are using digital audio (s/pdfi coax or optical Toslink)
outputs there are three products made to correct lip-sync in home
cinemas. They all allow the user to delay the digital audio while
viewing to achieve perfect lip-sync with no image disruption. They
are made by Alchemy2, Felston and Primare. I have the Felston DD740
and it works great. It costs $249 and amazingly has more features
than the other two which are about $399 and $499 unless you need RS232
control. They all have IR remote control but the ALchemy2 and primare
also have RS232 control. The Felston DD740 has 4 inputs and so does
the ALchemy DDL4 and D,DaD ($449 and $499) but the Primare only has 2
inputs. The Felston DD740 also has a fine adjustment mode with 1/3
the step size as the others and it also has more presets (9 per input)
plus numeric delay entry which the others don't have. That makes it
possible for a macro to totally control the DD740 with no dependence
upon recalling presets which is true of the others as well as the two
earlier Felston models (DD340 and DD540) when using programmable IR
remotes.

 

[nick]

I realized this might have been confusing:  That makes it

possible for a macro to totally control the DD740 with no dependence
upon recalling presets which is true of the others as well as the two
earlier Felston models (DD340 and DD540) when using programmable IR
remotes.

What I meant was that the DD740 is the only one with numeric input so
the earlier two Felston models as well as the other products mentioned
have that deficiency when used with programmable remotes. That is,
with the others a macro can't set the delay directly but must recall a
manually set delay in a preset register. The problem with that is a
user can inadvertently change a preset and the macro thereafter
recalls the wrong delay. Since the DD740 has numeric delay entry
supported by a full discreet IR code set the delay can be programmed
into the macro with no dependence upon any of the 36 preset
registers. I hope that makes more sense.