Moth3r said:
Check to see if the video on the DVD lines up frame-for-frame with the on demand version, if it doesn't, you might have a clearer idea of what's going on and where it goes out of sync.
It does, unfortunately. :( The original broadcast, the DVD, the iTunes...all the same master. It seems like the on-demand version is the anomaly. For a 44minute episode, there's about a 35-40 second difference in the running time between the studio master and the on-demand.
I tried speeding up the audio from the DVD by about 1 3/4% and that was close. Somewhere through it, it started to go out of sync again. :( It as if the OD master sped up and slowed down without reason. And the speed-up is so slight, as opposed to PAL, that it's almost imperceptible unless you have a comparison running along with it. I think I'm screwed. :(