How can you create an audio delay?

[iemcj]

I play a lot of movies from my mac out to my tv. The super annoying problem is there's always a disconnect between the mouthes and their voices, the tv is a a split second behind. I know by using vlc you can press G or F to adjust an audio delay but this doens't help me with itunes movies playing or when streaming youtube ect. Is there a way to set a 200ms audio delay?? Thanks guys!

 

[boast]

My Vizio TV has a Lip Sync setting that can do this. Maybe look for something similar on your TV?

 

[iemcj]

My Vizio TV has a Lip Sync setting that can do this. Maybe look for something similar on your TV?

Well I'm outputting audio from the 3.5mm headphone jack so unfortunately that won't work. Like I said, If I'm playing a mp4 file or something through vlc it takes a single keystroke to delay the audio by 200ms but that only applies to vlc, doesn't help for itunes or anything system wide.

 

[Tech198]

only way i can see is with third party software.. Audio Hi-jack

 

[iemcj]

only way i can see is with third party software.. Audio Hi-jack

Hmm. Would that be altering the files themselves or just the flow of audio out to the speakers? If it's the later then awesome! If it's the former then sad face, I have catalogs worth of movies and home videos and tvshows and the logistics just wouldn't mesh up. Alas, Thanks man!

 

[McScooby]

Hmm. Would that be altering the files themselves or just the flow of audio out to the speakers? If it's the later then awesome! If it's the former then sad face, I have catalogs worth of movies and home videos and tvshows and the logistics just wouldn't mesh up. Alas, Thanks man!

How do u connect the mac to the tv, component?

 

[iemcj]

How do u connect the mac to the tv, component?

Woops sorry for the delay!!

Anyways, I have the video going out the back of the imac, thunderbolt to hdmi cable straight into my tv. My tv doesn't have a frickin 3.5mm headphone jack output (even though it's a 2 year old 1600 dollar tv wtf???) so if I want to use my sound system, I have to output audio straight from my computer. The problem is the imput lag of about 150-200ms on the tv is messing up the lip sync, the audio is happening before the video on the tv.

Does that make sense?

 

[McScooby]

Woops sorry for the delay!!

Anyways, I have the video going out the back of the imac, thunderbolt to hdmi cable straight into my tv. My tv doesn't have a frickin 3.5mm headphone jack output (even though it's a 2 year old 1600 dollar tv wtf???) so if I want to use my sound system, I have to output audio straight from my computer. The problem is the imput lag of about 150-200ms on the tv is messing up the lip sync, the audio is happening before the video on the tv.

Does that make sense?

Audio HiJack sounds clunky as always has to be open & costs $60 etc. I assume that whilst your tv has no headphone / RCA out, it does have an optical? If so amazon etc will happily sell u a digital optical coax to analog RCA audio converter for approx $15, that should do the trick & if u ever opted for an TV u can use it on that also.