[MPlayer-users] Opteron, mencoder, DVD sound

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 8/7/05, Even Larsen <tedpixie at online.no> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am using a AMD Opteron server to do some DVD backup work with mencoder.
> But I get a problem when I trie to dump the AC3 stream into a MP3
> stream. When I rejoin the new mpeg4 encoded film with the new mp3
> stream they are out of sync. When I just copy the AC3 stream into
> the mpeg4 encoded film without reencoding the AC3 stream there is
> no problem. I can't find any function in mencoder to fix this and
> are currently using transcode to resync the sound, but this is not
> a good solution. For the most part I just copy the AC3 stream. Do
> anyone has a similar problem or anyone with a solution to the problem.
> I may be using wrong commandlines so here is the lines I use:
> 
> Dumping the AC3 -> MP3:
> 
> mencoder -ovc frameno -o frameno.avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=192
> -alang [language] dvd://[track]
> 
> Encoding the film 2-pass:
> 
> mencoder -oac copy -o /dev/null -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:
> vbitrate=[bitrate]:vhq:vpass=1:vqmin=2:vqmax=31 -vop scale=[x:y]
> -npp lb dvd://[track]
> 
> mencoder -oac copy -o [output] -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=[bitrate]:
> vhq:vpass=2:vqmin=2:vqmax=31 -vop scale=[x:y] -npp lb dvd://[track]
> 
> When the last pass is out of sync with the movie. I have tried the
> last CVS version of mplayer, same problem.


There has been some similar discussion on mencoder user mailing list
about a month ago. I suggest you read those threads, that should be a
good starting point.

For the rest, You have to know that the sync issues depend on the
source you transcode. NTSC is notoriously harder to encode and keep in
sync when you have to inverse telecine.

In your case, maybe you should add "-mc 0" to your encode line, that
might help. Other than that, try to see if your problem can be fixed
when muxing you final file in a matroska file (use "mmg" from the
mkvtoolnix which is simple to use for that purpose)


Hope that helps.

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