[MPlayer-users] Mencoder as realtime frameserver

[RC]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:54:25 -0500
Jeff Garneau <garneau.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) Using rawvideo and rawaudio rapidly causes desync.  It seems
> impossible to know beforehand how many video frames mencoder is going
> to pipe out

You could try mplayer as the frameserver instead...  It will not drop
any audio/video unless you request it.

> I may be able to solve this by getting video in a different format
> (which has natively perfect sync between audio and video) but I have
> no idea what codec I should be looking into.

Encode it into an AVI with mencoder, and it will be extremely close. 
The audio/video codecs probably don't matter.

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