[MEncoder-users] Too many video packets in the buffer

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 01:56:41PM -0400, EC wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:50:01 +0100
> Dom Holmes <dholmes at sctuk.com> wrote:
> 
> > Initially I was getting the 'Frame Skipped' message, I think the audio 
> > was losing sync over time. I added the -mc 0 option like above which 
> > starts encoding fine but after a few mins I get the 'Too many video 
> > packets in the buffer' error message and I've no idea how to solve this?
> 
> I was having the same problems with a few various dvds (NTSC) and
> hoped I wasn't the only one, since it was a pretty big problem.
> 
> What happened is these films are 100% progressive and
> soft-telecined, but encoding with -ofps 24000/1001 (or the
> equivelent pal value, I suppose), gave a lot of "Skipping Frame"

How much is "a lot"?

> message, and the output was very choppy. I tried -mc 0 and that
> fixed the output but left the audio horribly out of sync.
> 
> The solution I found was to encode the audio and not use -oac copy.
> With mp3lame the output is fine. But since I want the ac3 track, I
> dump it from the dvd and then remux it with mkvmerge after encoding
> the avi, discarding the mp3 track. Waste of cpu time yes, but I
> don't know that much about keep a-v sync so I am just trying to be
> cautious :).
> 
> Maybe mplayer is not doing correct processing of the audio when just
> called to copy, and then frames are skipped to keep audio sync?

This is very very strange... Never seen anything like it!

Rich