NTIA Technical Memorandum TM-10-464

Multimedia Synchronization Study

October 2009

Carolyn Ford, Mark A. McFarland, William Ingram, Scott Hanes, Margaret Pinson, Arthur Webster, Kelsey Anderson

Abstract: ITS is conducting a series of studies to quantify the effects of the separate audio and video compression qualities, and the differential delay in their synchronization, to the perceived aesthetic quality of a multimedia signal. The experiment described in this report was specifically designed to study the effects of the differential delay.

Keywords: audio delay; audio offset; audio–video synchronization; differential delay; multimedia quality; subjective testing

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