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

[Bill Crockett]

On 1/01/2012 1:38 AM, Malte Schünemann wrote:
> Thanks for your comments below
>
> On 12/31/2011 04:08 AM, Bill Crockett wrote:
>>
>> 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 have tried  DVBcut - but unfortunately, it does not recognise my 
> videos (although I can play them with mplayer - and mencoder has 
> worked in the past as well). When attempting to open the file, I get 
> "Unknown file type".
>
> midentify tells me e.g.
>
> ID_VIDEO_ID=511
> ID_AUDIO_ID=512
> ID_AID_512_LANG=deu
> ID_AUDIO_ID=515
> ID_AID_515_LANG=deu
> ID_SUBTITLE_ID=33
> ID_SID_33_LANG=
> ID_FILENAME=Die\ wilden\ Kerle_II_20100103_1140.ts
> ID_DEMUXER=mpegts
> ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
> ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=15000000
> ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=720
> ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=576
> ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
> ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
> ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=80
> ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
> ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
> ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
> ID_START_TIME=11166.00
> ID_LENGTH=6288.76
> ID_SEEKABLE=1
> ID_CHAPTERS=0
> ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffmpeg2
> ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=192000
> ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
> ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
> ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffmp2float
> ID_EXIT=EOF
>
>> 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
>>
>
> This is what I had tried in the past running Fedora - currently, I am 
> using Ubuntu 11.10 .
>
> Malte
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>

I don't know anything about Linux, sorry.  Have you tried opening a 
standard mpeg-ps file in DVBcut?  A number of short VOB files from a DVD 
to test it out?  If it does not work, then something is wrong with your 
install.  I would go here:

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