[MPlayer-users] PATCH for testing - fixes DVD delay?

[gabor farkas]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:04:12AM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> Ok i've found a possible problem, around the mpeg-es demuxer's buffering.
> Here's a first try to fix, please test it (i have only a few discs and i
> can't really see that delay, at least sometimes 0 seems to be ok sometoimes
> -200ms... but probably it's just me or badly mastered disc)



sorry, but can you give a short description what does this fix?

is there a delay between video / audio when watching dvds? or when
transcoding them?

thx,
gabor
> 
> patch:  http://mplayerhq.hu/~arpi/dvd/pts-try1.diff
> 
> NOTE: i suspect another delay too, caused by B frames, so you may still need
> to add 3 frames delay (-120ms for 24/25fps pal, -100ms for 30fps ntsc)
> manually _after_ applied the above patch. but i hope this delay is at least
> constant, or may depend on fps only.
> (so _imho_ the above patch won't fix the delay but will make it constant,
> but it's all speculation!)
> 
> please report any results!
> 
> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> 
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