[MEncoder-users] Revived: audio sync problems encoding from vob

[Nico Sabbi]

Christopher M. Jones wrote:

>I'm trying to reencode a vob copied using cpdvd. The reason I'm trying
>to reencode is that dvdauthor is giving me this error:
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>ERR:  SCR moves backwards, remultiplex input.
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>Problem is, whenever I try to reencode or remultiplex I get audio sync
>issues, or else I get other errors that also result in dvdauthor
>refusing to process the file. I've tried splitting the video and audio,
>then remuxing it. I've tried creating an avi and using avisync, but that
>gives me odd patches of noise throughout the file.
>
>Here is the source info, as reported by mencoder:
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>MEncoder 2:0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer
>Team
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it's extremely old; use svn

>This gives me a file which is synced when played by mplayer, but which
>dvdauthor won't process. dvdauthor gives me the following error:
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>WARN: audio sector out of range: -56910 (vobu #176, pts 762.862)
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Scott Smith admitted that this is a bug in dvdauthor (that somehow
believes that the video stream is much shorter than it really is).
Anyway this message should be harmless

>Let me just say that I did read the documentation, but I'm new to this.
>So, there is probably much I missed, or didn't understand. There's a lot
>there, and I have to say I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the variables. I'm
>hoping that someone can give me the magic bullet, offer a different
>approach, or tell me its time to scrap this project.
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