Audio delay adjustment

[nospotify 184]

Moving the issue from this thread, here is a formal request to add to all Emby apps the ability to adjust / sync the audio playback / delay, in the same way it apparently is currently possible to do in Emby Theater. 

[Gryzor 27]

+1.

I would add, NOT the same way it's possible in Theater, which is very cumbersome to use, but an in-player option.

[andyespi 5]

use case: I use an XGIMI projector which has Android built in, and when sending audio to my receiver using eARC, the audio gets delayed - probably in passthru processing, etc., etc. Running audio directly thru the built in XGIMI speaker results in good sync,  so no problem with Emby. I solve this in Kodi by setting 250ms audio difference, and apply to all. I wish I could do the same with Emby (delay video vs audio, or advance audio from video). Therefore I too wish for this feature.

[ShogunX 4]

I'd like to add my vote for this request as well. I have an entire season of a tv show with 150ms audio offset with no way to fix this problem in Emby other than to find a different source. The problem exists because it was incorrectly authored. I am on an older Roku Ultra.

[fridgefins 7]

I would also like to see this feature implemented. The subtitling delay works great and would welcome a similar menu item for audio.

I have experienced the same as ShogunX once or twice, but more often it happens on Live TV.  This would be a feature that could help me stay in Emby full-time and not open Tivimate or an external media player for special circumstances.  Its infrequent enough that its not on the top of the list of desired features, but would be a nice quality of life improvement.

[Sharife242 1]

I vote for this too

[Drjekyll 1]

+1 from me!

[Gareth_iowc 3]

+1 from me. There is an audio delay when using some Bluetooth audio speakers and it would be good to counter.

kodi had great options to allow this 

[TravelAccount 4]

+1 from me. I have a modest media library (30+TB) and I'm not going to go through and manual fix every single small audio issues. A quickly accessible adjustment would be a killer feature. I see this has been mention for YEARS, and the lack of this feature vs other platforms is pretty frustrating. Additionally, sometimes I encounter this issue from my NAS (UnRaid) when there's a parity check running. A quick bandaid would be a great feature, rather than having to stop and fix it, especially from my wifes POV.

[Gryzor 27]

Just now, TravelAccount said:

+1 from me. I have a modest media library (30+TB) and I'm not going to go through and manual fix every single small audio issues. A quickly accessible adjustment would be a killer feature. I see this has been mention for YEARS, and the lack of this feature vs other platforms is pretty frustrating. Additionally, sometimes I encounter this issue from my NAS (UnRaid) when there's a parity check running. A quick bandaid would be a great feature, rather than having to stop and fix it, especially from my wifes POV.

I've had this last point happen to me. WAF is very low when it comes to tinkering while watching a movie, and when something happens (like yesterday when a video was stuttering every few seconds -not the issue at hand here, I know) falling back to Kodi is our much preferred solution.

[simonmason 19]

OMG. Would kill for this. Most of the time it’s needed. But sometimes it is sorely needed. Bad rip, bad file format, who knows what causes it. But a simple on screen control to increase or decrease audio delay would take care of it.

[ferzal 12]

Why has this been discussed for years with no action?  There was a lot of deflecting by one team member in particular who kept pointing out the universal audio delay feature which is, obviously, not the feature being requested.  This would seem an easy feature to an idiot like me given that mpv can easily support it.  But I'm an idiot.  If this IS hard let us loyal paying users know and we'll probably act less entitled.

In my case I have no idea why 24p, in particular, suddenly invokes this issue when playing from Windows 11 with direct sound as a separate output from the HTPC. I can work around it, and do, and this doesn't affect all the configurations I use.  Just one and only when the refresh rate is changed to 24.  Currently, if using direct sound, I just don't let Emby change the refresh rate and I don't have any judder because of whatever algo's are running wherever (hard to know these days if it's the GPU or the TV or both).

I'd really like to go to video source framerate refresh where possible and this feature would be the only thing I could use or add in universal delays for certain refresh rates - I think this used to be an option or, perhaps, it was Kodi back in the day.

[simonmason 19]

On 3/16/2025 at 6:35 PM, simonmason said:

OMG. Would kill for this. Most of the time it’s needed. But sometimes it is sorely needed. Bad rip, bad file format, who knows what causes it. But a simple on screen control to increase or decrease audio delay would take care of it.

Just to clarify as I can no longer edit my post, I mean't to say most of the time it is NOT needed.  It would be nice to have this option for the times when it is needed.

[Gryzor 27]

On 4/5/2025 at 9:14 PM, ferzal said:

Why has this been discussed for years with no action?  There was a lot of deflecting by one team member in particular who kept pointing out the universal audio delay feature which is, obviously, not the feature being requested.  This would seem an easy feature to an idiot like me given that mpv can easily support it.  But I'm an idiot.  If this IS hard let us loyal paying users know and we'll probably act less entitled.
 

Exactly that.  I feel like Emby development, in terms of features, has really stalled...

[AJAYSWebDesign 5]

So...... Are EMBY developers considering this (basic) request???? All we want is a reply and a timeline for when it will be implemented!!!!

Users.... if you want this option get on board and demand action!!!

 

[Gryzor 27]

57 minutes ago, AJAYSWebDesign said:

So...... Are EMBY developers considering this (basic) request???? All we want is a reply and a timeline for when it will be implemented!!!!

Users.... if you want this option get on board and demand action!!!

 

I've reported a much, much simpler bug (flyouts in the player use the wrong css) and I don't have much hope for that being resolved; compared to that, this is a ton of coding.

[simonmason 19]

This seems to have developed into a much broader topic.  If you look in the dashboard in Emby and click on the version number you will see the version history.  Note: it would be nice if the date was included in this view.  You can also find it here: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/forum/17-announcements/ and it is by date.

The amount of changes going on appear to be quite significant.  Looking at the changelog my guess is that it is very challenging to keep up with all of the different video types, player types, etc.

It is possible that features like the one we are discussing keep getting pushed to the back when they have to deal with things like an Apple TV OS update that impacts the way the Apple TV viewer works or doesn't - I saw a lot of Apple TV updates recently in the changelog.

In other forums supporting other software I have seen them employ a simple voting mechanism for users to weigh in and indicate how important something is.  Perhaps something like that would work here?

[AJAYSWebDesign 5]

2 minutes ago, simonmason said:

This seems to have developed into a much broader topic.  If you look in the dashboard in Emby and click on the version number you will see the version history.  Note: it would be nice if the date was included in this view.  You can also find it here: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/forum/17-announcements/ and it is by date.

The amount of changes going on appear to be quite significant.  Looking at the changelog my guess is that it is very challenging to keep up with all of the different video types, player types, etc.

It is possible that features like the one we are discussing keep getting pushed to the back when they have to deal with things like an Apple TV OS update that impacts the way the Apple TV viewer works or doesn't - I saw a lot of Apple TV updates recently in the changelog.

In other forums supporting other software I have seen them employ a simple voting mechanism for users to weigh in and indicate how important something is.  Perhaps something like that would work here?

I think the major issue I now have is lack of response….. it shows a lack of respect to users. I created a new post and had it blocked and referred to this post…. So they have the time to read these posts just choose to not respond!

[Luke 42077]

2 hours ago, AJAYSWebDesign said:

So...... Are EMBY developers considering this (basic) request???? All we want is a reply and a timeline for when it will be implemented!!!!

Users.... if you want this option get on board and demand action!!!

 

HI, I don't have an ETA, but I know that audio delay adjustment has been requested a decent amount so it's definitely something we can look at.

Please note though, only about half the platforms can actually do this, so for the others like web browser, smart tv's and probably Roku, this would trigger transcoding anytime it is activated.

[Gryzor 27]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, I don't have an ETA, but I know that audio delay adjustment has been requested a decent amount so it's definitely something we can look at.

Please note though, only about half the platforms can actually do this, so for the others like web browser, smart tv's and probably Roku, this would trigger transcoding anytime it is activated.

I don't think other players I've used use transcoding to do that. I distinctly remember checking CPU usage with a freeware, simplistic player on my Android phone (because I had just installed a monitoring program with nice overlays, no other reason) and, except for an initial short spike when it decoupled video from audio, CPU usage stayed very low.i may try it again because I'm no developer and can certainly be remembering things.

[Luke 42077]

25 minutes ago, Gryzor said:

I don't think other players I've used use transcoding to do that. I distinctly remember checking CPU usage with a freeware, simplistic player on my Android phone (because I had just installed a monitoring program with nice overlays, no other reason) and, except for an initial short spike when it decoupled video from audio, CPU usage stayed very low.i may try it again because I'm no developer and can certainly be remembering things.

Right the installed android, iOS and windows apps will be able to do it. Everything outside of that is likely to trigger a transcode when this is activated.

[Gryzor 27]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

Right the installed android, iOS and windows apps will be able to do it. Everything outside of that is likely to trigger a transcode when this is activated.

Oh ok,I misread then!

[nospotify 184]

9 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, I don't have an ETA, but I know that audio delay adjustment has been requested a decent amount so it's definitely something we can look at.

Please note though, only about half the platforms can actually do this, so for the others like web browser, smart tv's and probably Roku, this would trigger transcoding anytime it is activated.

Just because would cause transcoding on some platforms isn't a reason to leave it as an indefinite "it's definitely something we can look at." As this thread indicates, a lot of people would like this functionality, and it's part of many other streaming/player platforms.

Edited April 11, 2025 by nospotify

[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, nospotify said:

Just because would cause transcoding on some platforms isn't a reason to leave it as an indefinite "it's definitely something we can look at." As this thread indicates, a lot of people would like this functionality, and it's part of many other streaming/player platforms.

Right Ii wasn’t trying to suggest  that.. just pointing it out.

[Bloopie 3]

+1

Been waiting for this feature for ages. There's an audio delay when using Bluetooth speakers and like many before me have said, it would be very useful to be able to adjust the audio delay.

Any chance we could get an update on this?