[MEncoder-users] Audio and video is fine in sync with mplayer but not with mencoder

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:23:33PM +0100, Bernd Butscheidt wrote:
> After about 8 second of playback of the output Test.mkv, the sync 
> is back.

This usually happens when MPlayer knows the sync is wrong but only
slowly corrects it.
In that case, higher values for -mc should help.

> So using "-mc 0" and "-noskip" seems no good idea - at least with this kind of 
> input.

All sync-related options should not be used unless verified
to improve things or being necessary (above are usually necessary
for -ovc copy to create valid output at all).