[MEncoder-users] Audio drift in mencoder 1.0rc2

[David Santinoli]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:48:21PM -0600, Laine Lee wrote:
> On 2/25/08 4:52 AM, "David Santinoli" <marauder at tiscali.it> wrote:
> >   I've encoded a few files from a DVB TS (read from the
> >   /dev/.../dvr0 device) using the 1.0rc2 mencoder (-ovc lavc -oac
> >   lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4).  When playing back the encoded
> >   files, audio slowly drifts away (get progressively delayed) from
> >   video.
> 
> I doubt there's a way to fix already encoded files but I found I was
> able to prevent the problem by adding harddup to the video filters
> list. But I'm not using the mpeg4 codec in my conversions. Would you
> care to share your command line?

Hi Laine,
  here are the complete command lines I used:

mencoder -o file.avi dvb://RAI1 -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4
mencoder -o file.avi prog.ts  -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

Unfortunately, adding "-vf harddup" didn't do the trick for me. :-/

Thanks,
 David