Thanks Knakos! I've opened the bug (and I see you've taken assignment already).

For anyone else interested, this is being tracked here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=418820

As promised, I've done testing with different codecs and this problem remains identical when using uncompressed, mp3, ogg and flac audio. I'm thinking this is a buffering/latency problem with the hardware and/or sound driver. Maybe the only fix will be a configurable offset which can be used to cue ...

Same issue, different hardware & software environment, way back in scummvm 0.8.2:
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=1380

Maybe it's time to raise a bug against the wince port?

By default, the sound mixing has priority over the graphics so I would expect the opposite effect from what you all describe. Makes sense. For this reason and the fact that I tried the sound_thread_priority=0 trick with no joy, I don't think this has anything to do with a lack of processing power (...

I've got this exact same problem with Sam n Max & DOTT. In both the sound lags behind the graphics. I've tried with both uncompressed SOU (256Mb) and compressed SO3 (74Mb) so I don't think this is anything to do with transfer rate from the SD card. I've also tried setting sound_thread_priority=0...