[MPlayer-dev-eng] dwStart (stream delay in AVI files)

Oded Shimon ods15 at ods15.dyndns.org
Tue Jan 31 05:58:53 CET 2006


On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:17:05PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
> I _think_ mplayer doesn't properly use the dwStart field in the stream
> header of AVI files. To reproduce, create a file with 10-second audio delay:
> 
> mencoder file.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -audio-delay 10 -o delay10.avi
> 
> MEncoder writes the audio delay in the dwStart field of the audio
> stream. You can check it with a hex editor or with 'mplayer -v delay10.avi'.

MEncoder supports -delay now anyway, you should use that... -audio-delay is 
a hack..

- ods15




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