[MPlayer-users] -noskip causes: Too many audio packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8257536 bytes)

[Corey Hickey]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 4/2/06, Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca at bioc.unizh.ch> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm used the latest CVS release of mplayer/mencoder to rip a dvd to avi:
>>
>> mencoder dvd://1 -alang en -ovc copy -oac copy -noskip -dvd-device
>> /scratch/movie.dump -o movie.avi
>>
>> After 15% it crashes with the error message:
>>
>> Too many audio packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8257536 bytes).
>>
>> Why is that? It doesn't happen if I omit the flag "-noskip".
>>
>> I include here the output:
> 
> 
> check if your movie is telecine or not (read the html doc about
> encoding telecine content). the symptom you describe looks like it is,
> and that it's not being taken care of during encoding.

You beat me to a reply. :)

A little way down the output there is this message:

demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching
framerate.

...so, the video is progressive.


For the original poster:

The short answer is to replace '-noskip' with '-ofps 24000/1001'. For an 
explanation, read the doc:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-telecine.html

You really should read until you understand why I suggested that 
parameter; there are many DVD that should not be encoded that way.

-Corey