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How do you capture the video track (as it’s analogue AFAIK)? Using a video capture card or such?

this is a laserdisc tho , its not like you can play it with record player. its digital data

I knew about the digital audio track for LaserDisc releases as the main reason why audio archivers actually edit and synced carefully (timing and voices) to the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD counterparts (including Dolby Digital AC-3 and DTS 5.1 mixes) to retain the dynamic far field mixes of the media.

Cool! Have you ever seen a Domesday system in action? I once did, working at Broxtowe Further Education College, Nottinghamshire in late 1989. It was hooked up to a BBC Master. The first multimedia system I’d ever seen!

Do players correct for this somehow or other, or is one of them just badly out of sync?

Uncompressed PCM stereo (optionally with matrixed four-channel surround) plus Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1!

Woah

as with anything to do with laserdisc the answer is: magic

Galaxian 3 is so weirdly futuristic and retro at the same time. I like how with the PS1 port you can see the seam of the two video streams in the middle.

Oh that's neat, makes sense

Nice. I concur with others: The early digital signal is likely to allow for a longer (in time) path for the digital signal to be buffered / decoded / turned back into analog again. It's also easier to delay audio than video, so the large delay is likely just playing it safe.

If you ever want me to take a listen to some audio stuff (and aren't on a time crunch), lmk! In my past life I worked in audio for video games and would enjoy poking at esoteric audio things.

Is this a domesday ld capture? Most laserdiscs had CX noise reduction on the analog audio tracks and I'm not sure if the decoding tools implement that on rf captures

This was my immediate thought too. Curious as to the offset from the video...

0.1s is generally the Max until audio-video offset becomes sup noticeable (lip-sync-error is another term used for this) Somebody must be missing something (that might be you or someone else)

Possibly an offset for the decoding overhead?

Is there any chance that the digitization process you used for the analogue track might have introduced the lag? I'm not sure how to easily check, though.