Fixing out-of-sync audio on OS X
I've recently downloaded a bunch of TV shows encoded in DivX and XviD, about half of which suffer horribly from out-of-sync audio using Quicktime or even the usually reliable VLC player.
A bit of searching uncovered the fact that I wasn't the only one, with the main solution bandied about was to use the tiny app "sync-hole" in order to match the audio and video tracks. Even so, I really didn't want to have to go through the manual process of post-processing every video file to make it usable on OS X.
However, it looks like there's a solution for now - the current 2b6 binary release of mplayer for OS X seems to avoid these problems completely and play the original files without issue. The full-screen mode runs ever so slightly askew on my 12" Powerbook (it's offset to the right a little) but it's kept up and worked well with the few XviD's and DivX's I've thrown at it so far.