Synchronization of digital audio with digital video

A method as recited in claim I further comprising the steps of skipping for reception the digital audio samples at the end of the Nth video field that correspond to the digital audio samples at the beginning of the N+1st video field.

An apparatus for synchronizing a digital audio signal with a corresponding digital video signal comprising:

• means for associating for transmission an integer number of samples of the digital audio signal obtained at an audio sample rate with each video field of the digital video signal, the number of digital audio samples per video field being determined by the audio sample rate and duration of each video field rounded up to the nearest integer;
• and
• for each N video fields, where N is the number of video fields for which there is an integer number of digital audio samples as a function of the audio sample rate, means for resynchronizing the digital audio signal with the digital video signal by repeating the digital audio samples at the end of the Nth video field that correspond to the digital audio samples at the beginning of the N+1st video field.