[MPlayer-users] dropped macroclocks and sound glitches

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:22:38PM -0700, Rob Prowel wrote:
> 
> I hope someone can give me some insight into why this
> happens.
> 
> I use Pinnacle Studio under windows to grab VHS
> content and save using the SonyDV codec (lossless,
> 28Mb/sec constant bitrate).  

DV is not lossless... BTW, a constant bitrate codec can never be
lossless unless it does no compression at all.

> When I view the AVI using mplayer, or transcode using
> mencoder, I frequently see dropped macroblocks and
> sound glitches.  They usually occur on 1GB byte
> boundaries, although occasionally occur at points
> where a frame or two was dropped during the initial
> video capture.

I would guess it's a bug in the odml code, but I don't understand
odml...

Rich