[MEncoder-users] Many "1 duplicate frame(s)!" when capturing from TV

[Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto]

>  After extensive experimenting I could solve the problem by setting the
>  ALSA period_size from 1024 to 256. Now i only get 6 skips and 2 dups in
>  3 minutes of TV-capturing. Also, they don't directly follow each other
>  anymore (minimum 30 frames distance).
>
>  To set period_size, I used the ~/.asoundrc from
>  http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/.asoundrc
>  (I think I just concatenated the "Initialisierung", "Mixing" and the
>  "OSS" listings). Then I changed period_size in the pcm.dsnooper section
>  to 256.
>
>  Regards,
>  Alex
>

Thank you, I will try that. It will take some study though, to
understand asoundrc