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

[Martin Collins]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 19:32:10 +0200
lists.mplayer-users at jay-jay.net wrote:

> I see, vhq seems to be old, maybe I can simply drop it.

Use mbd=2 instead.
 
> But what about the frameno thing? Isn't it obligatory if I want to
> create multiple audio tracks and mix them to the video in the end,
> resulting in one stand-alone movie per language?

No, if you just use -oac copy in the video encoding it should maintain
sync. The frameno thing can actually cause de-sync sometimes, this is
why it is now deprecated.

> Well, I know pre5 is not brand-new but as it was such a huge
> effort to find out a method that meets my requirements and results
> in a perfectly synchronous audio track I didn't move on to pre6
> and pre7.

I've never had any problem with sync, though I'm not usually encoding
DVDs my process is similar to yours in that I do the sound separately.
I use vorbis sound and mux into ogm or, these days, matroska. When I
do encode a DVD I tend to just copy the ac3 soundtrack.
A newer mplayer should give you better results, but if you're happy
with what you have...

Martin