Introduction: Workaround for Desynchronized or No Audio When Seeing Movies on TV With USB.

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I see a lot of movies and there is something that makes me scream; seeing a movie and one of those things happening:

  • after twenty minutes or so no audio at all;
  • audio so low that I have to raise the volume but the music of the movie is very high having to low and raise volume like a lot of times;
  • audio desynchronized so I have to read subtitles—even if I understand the language of the movie—because it is impossible to follow the plot.

If one of those things happened to you, you have arrived at the appropriate Instructable. Besides, the main reason was that I like to see movies on TV and not having the PC turn on with the subsequent PC life and energy consumption.

You will need:

  • apart from the obviously: USB, TV, etc.;
  • a phone with a player that can reproduce audio from video files (VLC Player does the trick on Android);
  • and optionally an MP4—or other video formats—to MP3 software converter—or others—.

This trick will help you too to listen to movies if you have a TV with no audio jack to connect headphones. So for instance, you can have in summer your fan at the higher speed and listen to the movie you are watching with headphones or not it depends on the volume you need to hear it.

Step 1: Prepare Anything You Will Need.

I mean:

  • download or rip the DVD or whatever method you use to see movies on your TV;
  • then transfer the movie to a USB and your phone (if you are reading that probably I do not need to show you how);
  • if you have decided to convert the file first then do the conversion and transfer the MP3.

Step 2: Download VLC Player From Android Store or Others Sites.

Now you need to download to your phone the app VLC Player, this is the one I use but I suppose there are others. After you have done everything until this step and open VLC Player on your phone, you will have something like in the first picture above. Now you need VLC Player reproducing only the audio, easy peasy.

  1. Go to the file you wish to reproduce and press the three dots. You will arrive at a menu like in the second picture of this step;
  2. Press "Play as audio"—the pictures are in Spanish but I assume is something similar to "Reproducir como audio";
  3. If now you press on the title bar that appears at the bottom you will have something like the third picture on this step. Remember to play pause after the playback starts.

NOTE: in order to reproduce as audio easily you must go to the menu of the first picture. To do so press on the three bars on the top left and then Video. If you do not do it like that probably you will have to start the video and then press on play as audio.

Step 3: Synchronizing Audio and Video for Beginners.

No matter what step do you do first—the previous one or that one—once you have arrived at that point, I mean, USB and phone with the video file—or MP3 if it is your case—you just need to follow this other steps—I usually proceed like that—:

  1. start with both devices in pause, so reproduce the video files in both devices—in the phone as it is shown in the previous step—and just after starting to play press pause;
  2. now you have to press play in both devices at the same time;
  3. to synchronize by seconds just press pause or play in one of the devices you need to adjust until the audio matches the image.

Trick: I usually skip the initial credits even if it has scenes on it unless I consider them important to the plot. So, if you do that or if you start to see the movie and after twenty minutes the audio goes off, proceed as in the next step.

Step 4: Synchronizing Audio and Video for Advancers

This is tricky so to do it;

  1. press on the three dots again, but on the ones that are on the title bar not the ones on the file—see picture;
  2. search for the curved arrow with a Morse-like code on the bottom of it—". . . -"—and press on it;
  3. now you are on the "skip to time" menu so if you need to go to the 00h55m00s just press 55 and 00 and then accept. If you need to go to 01h43m55s then just press, in that order, 01 43 and 55, then accept.

NOTE1: as before if you need to adjust or synchronize the audio to the image then proceed as in the previous step, playing and pausing at your convenience.

NOTE2: I do not know if it happens to everyone but in my case VLC Player on Android tends to go way before the time I set to skip, so for example, if I press 54 and 56 it goes to 54m50s so I have to pause the TV and wait until the audio arrives at that time, easy to fix as you can see.