[MPlayer-users] A-V delay does not work correctly

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:58:47PM +0300, Yourself wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Quoting Patrick Mackinlay (patrick at spacesurfer.com) as `PM'
> Message date: 17 Apr 2003 at 16:16
> 
> PM> Raiders.of.the.Lost.Ark.\(1981\).CD2.LDCap.Kramerica.ShareReactor.avi
> PM> I am having audio problems. It appears that the creator of this file
> PM> has prepended a splash page to the video resulting in a 5-6 second delay
> PM> between the sound and the video (video lags sound).
> 
> oh, yeah... i have the exact same file... :-) What i do to play it is
> tell mplayer to seek to position 0, so it skips the introduction garbage
> and plays the file perfectly:
> 
> mplayer -ss 0 raiders_blah_blah.avi

You could also try:

mencoder raiders_blah_blah.avi -ss 0 -oac copy -ovc copy -o fixed.avi

:)

Rich