[MEncoder-users] mencoder - Skipping frame!

[The Wanderer]

On 02/24/2010 06:03 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:

> People,
> 
> When I record from a USB video grabber using:
> 
> 	mencoder-1.0-0.111.20091029svn.fc12.x86_64
> 
> and:
> 
> /usr/bin/mencoder tv:// -tv 
> driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:adevice=hw.0:alsa:forceaudio 
> -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o out.avi
> 
> I see lots of these:
> 
> 	mencoder - Skipping frame!
> 
> When replaying, the audio is fine but the video continually displays
> "catching up" rapid video to resync with the audio.
> 
> Is it the "Skipping frame" errors causing this?

Possibly, although those usually just cause plain A/V desync in my
experience.

Try adding '-noskip' and/or '-mc 0' to your MEncoder command line.

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