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Downloaded video: audio and video are out of sync
Hello Dropbox Community, I was having no problem download videos to my computer and playing them back on my computer until a few days ago. Now downloaded videos playback with audio and video ou...
Hi Megan,
I was using the Windows media player. I just downloaded VLC player and tried out one of the videos which had played sound and video out of sync on the Windows media player. Thankfully, the sound and video were in sync using the VLC player. So, thank you for suggesting using another media player. I just don't understand why the earlier downloads play fine on Windows player and the later ones don't....
Hi Megan,
I was using the Windows media player. I just downloaded VLC player and tried out one of the videos which had played sound and video out of sync on the Windows media player. Thankfully, the sound and video were in sync using the VLC player. So, thank you for suggesting using another media player. I just don't understand why the earlier downloads play fine on Windows player and the later ones don't....
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey LS181 - sorry to jump in here, but I just wanted to mention that the VLC player usually includes more codecs than Windows Media Player; that's probably why you were able to view those files normally there and not on WMP.
In any case, I'm glad to see it's sorted now and please let us know if you have anything else to ask.
Thank you for the explanation and support, Walter.
