Symptom
When playing a movie from a DVD-Video disc the sound is not synchronized with the picture.
Affected Products- Power Mac G4
- iMac (Slot loading)
- PowerBook (FireWire)
- iBook
Solution1. Install these updates:- Mac OS 9 Update (9.0.4)
- Apple DVD Player 2.2 or later
- QuickTime 4.1.1 or later
2. Turn off Virtual Memory in the Memory control panel
3. Turn off AppleTalk in the AppleTalk control panel by clicking the Options button, selecting Inactive, and clicking OK
4. Make sure there are no background tasks, like copying files in the Finder, that could make the computer busy
You can use the Software Update control panel to install Mac OS 9 Update and Apple DVD Player 2.2. The current version of Apple DVD Player is 2.7. Each version can also be download from Apple Software Updates at
http://www.apple.com/swupdates/ . Use the QuickTime Updater application in the QuickTime folder to update to QuickTime 4.1.1 or later of visit
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ to download the latest version.
Important: You must install Mac OS 9 Update before installing Apple DVD Player 2.2.
Specific movies on DVD-Video discs may have their own audio synchronization issues that are unrelated to Apple DVD Player. Audio synchronization issues with these discs could happen on any kind of DVD player.
For additional information on improving movie playback from DVD-Video discs, see article 58383: "
Apple DVD Player: Troubleshooting Video Issues."