[MPlayer-dev-eng] Question about A/V synchronization.

[Uoti Urpala]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 18:33 +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:17:57 +0800
> "Liu Mars" <marsliudev at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Dropping frame is a good way (sometime it is the only way, like my case. 
> > )for synchronization but it makes the movie jerking. why don't mplayer try 
> > to slow down the audio playing speed?  I do think it will be better than 
> > dropping frame.
> 
> Because it causes sound distortion. Small corrections of the
> show time of frames are hardly noticable, while the same small
> corrections would horribly distort sound.

Normal A/V sync does not drop frames. Framedrop is completely disabled
by default, and when enabled only used when video is significantly
behind audio.