[MPlayer-users] Re: matroska problem!

[Jonathan Rogers]

Horváth István wrote:
> a have a problem with a matroska file, i just converted an avi file to
> matroska format (mkvmerge -o asdf.mkv inputfile.avi) and the audio / video
> is not in sync, nonetheless the input file was in sync and the new .mkv
> file is in sync according to the mplayer A-V output (correctly it is less
> than 0.001).
> 
> the mkvtoolnix version is 0.5.0-1 (i installed it from the original sites
> .deb source, because i have a debian sid (unstable) daily updated) and
> mplayer builded from cvs.
> 
> and when i mkvextract - ed the asdf.mkv into two parts(video and audio)
> the the file length differs by 20 sec!!!
> 
> i don't know if this help, but the infile's framerate is 23.976 fps.
> 
> if this was discussed before in this list, then sorry for the question,
> but please give me some link where it was discussed!

This is a problem with mkvmerge, not mplayer and it has been discussed 
on the list before. Read this message from Moritz Bunkus (the author of 
ogmtools and mkvtoolnix) and the thread which it's in.

<URL:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/17927>

Jonathan Rogers