[MPlayer-users] Problem preserving video quality using -ovc copy from DVD (NODAEMON)

[Martin]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:23:27 -0800
Jeremy Brinkley <jeremy-mplayer at batray.net> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I've got some DVD-Rs with video recorded from a DVD camcorder. What I'm
> after is to get the audio and video streams from the DVD videos off, one
> chapter per file. This turns out to work quite well in mencoder if I
> re-encode the video. However, I want to just preserve the video and audio
> streams as they are:
> 
> mencoder dvd://1 -oac copy -ovc copy -chapter 1-1 -o 1-1.avi
> 
> The resulting .avi, however, has distorted frames, and the timing of these
> distortions seem to be similar to where mencoder has printed the message:
> 
> Skipping frame!
> 
> and 
> 
> 1 duplicate frame(s)!
> 

Humm... May be a silly idea since your are using -o[av]c copy, not reencoding the dvd, but try with -ofps 23.976, I use it when encoding Z1 or Z4 dvds to mpeg4 to avoid skip/duplicate frames problems

Regards,  
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Martín
martin_199ar at yahoo.com.ar