diff --git a/services/capture/src/capture-manager.js b/services/capture/src/capture-manager.js
index c14fec1..5e334ed 100644
--- a/services/capture/src/capture-manager.js
+++ b/services/capture/src/capture-manager.js
@@ -720,15 +720,11 @@ class CaptureManager {
           '-video_size', fcSize,
           '-framerate',  fcFps,
           '-i', 'pipe:0',
-          // Audio FIFO → ffmpeg input 1. The bridge flushes its slot backlog to
-          // the live edge on reader-attach, so the FIFO delivers live audio in
-          // lockstep with the video. We DERIVE audio PTS from the s16le sample
-          // count starting at 0 — the SAME origin as the video's frame-0 PTS —
-          // rather than from wall-clock arrival. Wall-clock stamped the first
-          // audio chunk at a time offset from video frame 0, and the master
-          // aresample then PADDED ~2.5s of leading silence to align them. With
-          // sample-count PTS both streams share one origin → no pad, no leading
-          // silence, length locked.
+          // Audio FIFO → ffmpeg input 1. Wallclock timestamps + master
+          // aresample=async=1 is the proven-clean A/V config; both inputs must
+          // start from the live edge (see the fc_pipe + audio flush at record
+          // start) so aresample has minimal correction to do.
+          '-use_wallclock_as_timestamps', '1',
           '-thread_queue_size', '512',
           '-f', 's16le',
           '-ar', '48000',