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TL;DR
- A number of homeowners of the Google TV Streamer report the machine dropping sync between video and audio playback.
- The difficulty appears to worsen the longer the field is left on, and briefly will get higher following a reset.
- The issue seems to be system-wide, reasonably than impacting solely sure streaming companies.
Fashionable video streaming will be one thing of a nightmare for folks notably delicate to sync points — when audio and video playback aren’t fairly precisely lined up. Whereas on outdated bodily media sound and video could be tied collectively on the identical piece of tape or movie, with fashionable digital transport mechanisms and sign processing, it’s straightforward to get into conditions the place you’re out of sync by a whole bunch of milliseconds or extra. New homeowners of the Google TV Streamer are actually operating into what appears to be a very egregious case of this type of sync downside.
A rising variety of customers have taken to Reddit and Google’s assist boards to report their experiences, and accounts from ShadowMario01, SleepyOne, and Aluuh share comparable issues. They’re seeing pervasive points with audio delays throughout the Google TV Streamer expertise — not simply in a number of apps, but in addition with the system UI itself. A minimum of one report notes that the problem seems to worsen over time, nearly as if there’s a “drift” to the issue.
Certainly, rebooting the field can supposedly at the very least quickly mitigate the sync situation, however that’s removed from an enduring answer. Contemplating what number of shifting components are concerned right here, from distant streaming companies, to the Google TV Streamer itself, to the audio and video {hardware} you’ve got in your front room, it would take a bit of digging earlier than anybody’s capable of get right down to the foundation reason behind the glitch. Whereas the machine itself remains to be new, some homeowners solely report having these issues over the previous couple of days, so it’s potential one thing lately modified on Google’s finish.
We’ve reached out to Google to see if the producer can shed any gentle on what’s going flawed right here, and can replace you if we be taught something extra.
