[MPlayer-users] A-V-sync in mencoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:52:44PM +0200, Ville Saari wrote:
> > Not true! Telecine!!!!
> 
> But if you do inverse telecine, then you are intentionally using a filter
> that changes the number of frames. And although the relation between
> the input and output frames would then not be one-to-one, it would still
> be predictable which would be quite an improvement over the current

No, it's entirely nonpredictable.

> > Basically mencoder just sucks, but it vaguely works. IMO you should
> > always use -mc 0 -noskip, but this can easily break a/v sync if your
> > input file isn't perfect or if you want to do inverse telecine.
> 
> And it most likely _will_ break it. In my experience -mc 0 almost
> never produces acceptable results unless the input file was produced
> by mencoder itself. And even then it wouldn't be 100% sure.

It does fine for DVDs, from my experience.

Rich