[MEncoder-users] some minutes delay between audio and video

[Bill Crockett]

On 31/12/2011 9:04 AM, Malte Schünemann wrote:
> I am frequently converting videos coming via satellite as transport 
> stream. I recently experienced a strange delay between the audio and 
> the video part that is in the range of minutes. Indeed, the mencoder 
> output shows
>
> The problem happens only if I attempt to cut out advertisings - so far 
> I only observed the problem at the beginning of the file (cutting off 
> the first 5 minutes). I tried to overcome the problem with 
> -audio-delay, but had no success. 

Please read this thread about DVBcut:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mencoder-users/2011-December/012989.html

I spent weeks experimenting with -edl -ss and -endpos with MPEG-TS 
videos and I could not get A/V sync right.  Don't waste your time like I 
did.

http://dvbcut.sourceforge.net/index.html

If you are using Windows:

http://www.glasstetter.net/dvbcut/

It also needs MPlayer to play videos.  Make sure it in your path.