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

[Andrew Berg]

On 4/15/2010 11:50 PM, RC wrote:
> I'd bet money that -fps option is the cause...  If it's not exactly the
> right value, audio/video will get way out of sync with each other (or
> rather, their buffers will), regardless the status line say.  And all it
> takes is a few frames dropped from your transport stream to do it...
>   
Using pp=lb instead of yadif (removing the need for -fps 50 -ofps 25 and
filmdint=io=50:25) makes it happen even sooner.
> Have you even tried
> watching the (partial) output video?  How does it look?
>   
Terribly out-of-sync after only 20 seconds.
> Alternately, you can try pcm in place of "copy", as that definitely
> causes problems with some formats.
>   
No change. I've never had problems copying AC-3 streams anyway.