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In article <1992Aug7.171104.9943@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
>In article <14358@borg.cs.unc.edu>, jeffay@jeffay.cs.unc.edu (Kevin Jeffay) writes:
>>
>> Greetings -- I am trying to determine the requirements on lip synchronization
>> for applications such as video conferencing. <deleted stuff>  ... For
>> example, can people tell if audio is say 50ms. ahead or behind the video
>> (and does it bother them)?
>
>Speaking entirely from personal experience, I'd say people would be pretty
>tolerant of discrepancies in synchronization between audio and video. I think
>you could have a shift of maybe a tenth of a second without it becoming really
>noticeable.

Unfortunately, I don't have a documented reference for these figures, but I
have often heard the numbers 30-40 ms used as a worst case for lip sync.

Eric Miller

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