So I subscribed to the Real Time with Bill Maher podcast a while back. At first they were just pumping out audio-only versions of the shows from a week-or-so ago but today a video version of the show from 2/8/8 showed up. The file appears to be an H264/AAC encoded file using a Quicktime container with a .mov file extension.

The file plays just fine in the Quicktime player. (Well, if you could call looking at the Quicktime player "fine".) However, in the Zune player, the audio is totally out of sync. The video is literally like 30 seconds behind the audio. I also tried playing the file in WMP using my trusty Vista Codec Pack (FFDShow) and the audio is out of sync there as well.

I believe this is the first time I've encountered a Quicktime file that didn't work properly in WMP/FFDShow. Does anyone else have any issues like this? Any suggestions or ideas? I can't find any settings that seem to change anything in FFDShow and the Zune stuff has nothing to configure so I'm sorta out of stuff to tweak.

I can't test the file on a Zune because I don't actually own a Zune, I just use the software for listening to podcasts and I didn't want to post this in the official Zune forums because all those nitwits ever do is complain instead of actually trying to help each other out.

Just an update here... The 2.5 software hasn't fixed this issue, however I've noticed that the episodes that use .m4v containers work fine but the .mov container files still have the sync issue.