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

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:16:45PM +0100, Martin Collins wrote:
> 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?

No, this is a lie perpetuated by authors of stupid windows software.
VBR is the natural audio format for avi and always has been.

> Using cbr should fix this. Or use the matroska
> container instead of avi.

No. The a/v sync problems with vbr audio are caused by a bug in
mencoder combined with lame's excessive prebuffering of audio when
encoding vbr. It has nothing to do with avi container.

Rich