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A multimedia system including an audio/video decoder/decompresser for decoding/decompressing a compressed encoded audio/video data stream to generate video images for display and audio signals for audible reproduction. The multimedia system includes an integrated system and video decoder with an audio/video synchronization circuit for substancially synchronizing the display of video images with audio playback. A method is described for detecting when the playback of audio and the display of video images are out of synchronization. The circuitry includes three programmable registers, a finite state machine and one full adder using an audio presentation time stamp and the video presentation time stamp. The method uses a rounded programmable bias value which is compared with the difference between the video presentation time stamp and the audio presentation time stamps. The difference may included the latency delay of the audio and video display devices to more properly reflect the synchronization status between audio and video. The circuit area used by the circuitry has been minimized by selective rounding or truncation of the audio presentation time stamp and the video presentation time stamp without sacrificing the accuracy or speed of determining the synchronization between audio and video.

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