[MPlayer-users] Audio/video sync... again

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:25:33PM +0100, Vidar Wahlberg wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I'm well aware that this has been talked alot about earlier, but I
> couldn't find an answer in previous mails so I thought I'd ask for an
> update:
> 
> Like quite many other people I can't get audio & video in sync when
> ripping from DVD's. Just playing the DVD with mplayer works great, but
> if I try encoding to another codec (apparently any codec, tried the
> examples in the documentation) the sound is out of sync, and the delay
> is never the same (usually from about -200ms to -350ms). I can also
> point out that playing the VOB after dumping it with mplayer works fine.
> 
> I haven't tested out the build from 10th December 2002 which someone
> claimed should work, but I did test all released versions from 0.90-rc4
> to 1.0pre-2 (if it counts as a release). All have the same desync.
> Reason i didn't test the older versions was simply because i couldn't
> get XviD to work with it.
> 
> Is it only me who's stuck with this problem?

Try with -oac copy or -lameopts cbr and see if the problem goes away
with either or both of these. Using cbr is NOT a good idea, but this
will tell whether the problem is the elusive 'lame bug' or not. If
this fixes the problem, I would recommend downgrading to lame 3.90 or
earlier, which definitely does not have such a bug.

Rich