[subject4056]

Audio and video are encoded, compressed, and transmitted differently because of how humans audially/visually decode them. We fare better dropping late video frames than degrading their quality, where the opposite is true for audio. As we transmit the two as separate, asynchronous signals, it's unsurprising that they are frequently out of sync.

[viraptor]

This, but also at the physical devices level, there will be different delays. For example my video stream goes to the projector with some specific frame delay. But the audio goes over bluetooth to a speaker, which introduces its own per-packet delay. The source tries to balance those as much as possible, but the result will differ slightly each time they're turned on.