I've noticed something similar: I have a captured HDTV stream (in other words, a bit-for-bit copy of what went out over the air) that the TV will play the sound about 1500ms before the video. When I was watching the show live, there was no problem with sound sync.
When I watch the same stream on my PC the sound is in sync.
It looks like there may be some differences in the processing of streams based upon the source.
I have a Samsung LCD 7 series 52" and have tried to play a avi movie (on two different flash drives) in my Samsung and find that the audio does not sync with the video. I can play the movie in my computer (iMac system 10.5.6) from the flash drive and everything syncs well but not when I play it from the wiselink connection.
Any ideas??
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