[MPlayer-users] introducing DVD-to-DivX approach that fixes A/V sync problems

[Martin Collins]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:35:00 +0200
Joachim Jautz <lists.mplayer-users at jay-jay.net> wrote:

> when converting a DVD into DivX using MEncoder it can (under
> certain circumstances) happen that the resulting movie's audio and
> video are out of sync. Usually the delay is about 300ms which is
> enough to be annoying.

Isn't the main reason for this that you are using abr which avi can't
handle very well? Using cbr should fix this. Or use the matroska
container instead of avi.

> Thanks for reading. I hope it helps someone with A/V sync
> problems. If the method introduced here is obsolete for the latest
> releases (e.g. MEncoder's internals have changed after 1.0pre5
> with respect to this) please let me know.

Some of the options you use are obsolete (frameno, vhq) and there
have been several security fixes also. pre5 is ancient.

Martin