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Contributor I
September 24, 2019
Question

Lipsync Issues

Hi,

I have a Sonos Beam and in the main I'm very happy. However, like others on here I'm having issues with lynching - i have a Sony Bravia TV, a Sony S380 Blu-ray Player and a Sky Q box (UK).

It is usually okay unless I'm using an HD channel. Changing the slider on the Sonos app does absolutely nothing to fix the lipsynching. I've also tried turning off the imaging processing but still to no avail.

Any ideas?

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    TeamRCAuthor
    Contributor I
    November 11, 2019

    Is there anyone there looking at these?

    Airgetlam
    November 11, 2019

    Have you tried removing all of the extra audio processing that the TV might be doing? They’re often the cause of delay to audio going to either the HDMI-ARC or optical port.

    Also, have you checked in the About MY Sonos to see what kind of signal the Beam thinks it is getting, when you’re experiencing this delay?

    Have you checked to see if there are any firmware/software updates for your TV?

    While I’ve not seen a lot of posts regarding Sony products, there’s a plethora of posts in this area of the forum where people have resorted to stripping the audio out before it gets into the TV by using HDMI switches that have optical outputs, which skips any delays that seem to be introduced by the TV’s electronics. 

    Bruce
    Fez33
    Trending Lyricist II
    November 12, 2019

    I have a Samsung tv with the same problem and samsing say its a sonos problem and sonos say its a Samsung problem  i think i waisted my money not sure on what yet 

    Airgetlam
    November 12, 2019

    Seems odd for Sonos to work without issue on so many other TVs. 

    Bruce
    Collaborator I
    November 12, 2019

    Same issue occasionally - Dive deep in to your Sky Q box settings and you can set a delay to remedy your problem

    TeamRCAuthor
    Contributor I
    December 5, 2019

    Have you tried removing all of the extra audio processing that the TV might be doing? They’re often the cause of delay to audio going to either the HDMI-ARC or optical port.

    Also, have you checked in the About MY Sonos to see what kind of signal the Beam thinks it is getting, when you’re experiencing this delay?

    Have you checked to see if there are any firmware/software updates for your TV?

    While I’ve not seen a lot of posts regarding Sony products, there’s a plethora of posts in this area of the forum where people have resorted to stripping the audio out before it gets into the TV by using HDMI switches that have optical outputs, which skips any delays that seem to be introduced by the TV’s electronics. 

    Thanks Bruce,

    I’ve already stripped away as much of the image processing as i can. The only thing that works is to change the audio to PCM but then that isn’t much of a solution because i already had stereo audio via the TV.

    When you talk about “what kind of signal...” what exactly do you mean? That’s something i’ve not looked at. 

    I did thing about the audio stripper option but what worries me is it’s not consistant: if im watching a blu-ray through my Sony player then the lip-sync is noticeably worse than when watching an HD TV channel via sky.

    TeamRCAuthor
    Contributor I
    December 5, 2019

    Seems odd for Sonos to work without issue on so many other TVs. 

    Check the forums - most TVs are affected.

    TeamRCAuthor
    Contributor I
    December 5, 2019

    Same issue occasionally - Dive deep in to your Sky Q box settings and you can set a delay to remedy your problem

    Thanks for the advise. I looked at that but that only makes things worse - i think the audio is behind the picture so slowing it down only exacerbates the problem.

    TeamRCAuthor
    Contributor I
    December 5, 2019

    I have a Samsung tv with the same problem and samsing say its a sonos problem and sonos say its a Samsung problem  i think i waisted my money not sure on what yet 

    It’s so frustrating isn’t it. Everything is connected via HDMI so i cant see how there is a lag! 

    jgatie
    December 5, 2019

    Seems odd for Sonos to work without issue on so many other TVs. 

    Check the forums - most TVs are affected.

     

    Check the hospital - most people are sick.

    The fact is, there was once an actual widespread problem with the Playbar.  There were dozens of threads, and the main one reached 1000 posts in a couple days.  That’s what a widespread problem looks like.