Dawn of the Geeks

I’ve had my WinTV PCI video capture card since about 1996.  The technology for these things hasn’t improved a whole lot since then.  It really comes down to the speed of your CPU.  One of the constant problems I’ve had is the audio being out of sync with the video.  There are two things I’ve found are necessary to solve the problem.  First, use the audio connector on the inside of the case.  Don’t go from audio out on the capture card to line in on your PC. The second is don’t compress the audio when capturing.

I use the free Divx Codec without audio compression and get perfect audio/video sync as far as I can tell.