[FFmpeg-user] why are my streams not aligned?

[Ted Park]

The target duration randomly being changed to 7 is weird, but why are you doing this at all? Can’t you just do a simple encoding to a ts file for the video first with the right gop settings then have that be the reference for creating the hls playlist? Or even just create the ts file from both video and audio and prepare it for hls? Because how do you know they were synched to a common clock in the first place...