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Subtitle drift and a fixed delay are different problems
Text that grows progressively further from the scene is not behaving like a single fixed offset.
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The viewing journal — page 34
Practical reading about screens, players, Canadian viewing and the decisions behind a better setup.
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VLC desktop
Combed moving edges are not the same as buffering
A comb-like edge concerns how image fields or frames are presented.
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Track 2 does not always mean the language you expect
Track order is local to the supplied media.
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Portrait video on a landscape tablet can correctly have side bars
A portrait source and a landscape screen have different shapes.
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Why audio can continue after a mobile video window changes
A player can move from full-screen video to background audio or picture-in-picture.
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A matching guide title does not prove the channel mapping is correct
Two feeds can share a familiar channel name while carrying different schedules.
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