Due to various reasons, the audio and video tracks sometimes may become out-of-sync in a video clip, i.e. there are some delay between the tracks affecting the overall viewing experience. Use the following as examples to fix the issue.

CASE 1: Audio happens before video (aka “need to delay audio stream 1”):

ffmpeg -i clip.mp4 -itsoffset 0.150 -i clip.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -map 0:0 -map 1:1 output.mp4

The “itsoffset” in the above example is placed before file 1 (remember that linux counts from 0, so 0 is the first and 1 is the second), so when the mapping happens, it says “Take the video of file 0 and the audio of file 1, leave the video of file 0 alone and apply the offset to the audio of file 1 and merge them into a new output file”. The delay is only .15 seconds.

CASE 2: Video happens before audio (aka “need to delay video stream 0”):

ffmpeg -i clip.mp4 -itsoffset 0.150 -i clip.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -map 0:1 -map 1:0 output.mp4

The “itsoffset” in the above example is placed before file 1. When the mapping happens, it says “Take the audio of file 0 and the video of file 1, leave the audio of file 0 alone and apply the offset to the video of file 1 and merge them into a new output file”. The delay is only .15 seconds.