[MPlayer-users] "Too many video packets in the buffer" playing a merged file

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:54:44PM +0100, Alessandro Di Rubbo wrote:
> P.S. To rich. You wrote: "NEVER EVER use -nosound unless you actually intend for the final movie
> to have no sound!!!", but if I want to create a Matroska (mkvmerging
> a SINGLE .avi and an external .ogg) can I use -nosound option? As
> I've said already, I've notice no problem doing that.

No, you cannot. It may work with some dvds, but a/v sync might be
slightly off, and with many it will be VERY wrong. Absolutely NEVER
use -nosound when encoding unless you intend for your FINAL movie to
have no sound (and thus no need for any sync). If you're going to
mkvmerge, you MUST keep audio with the file while processing it with
mencoder, due to the fact that mencoder sucks. Either use -oac copy or
-oac pcm with very low samplerate so it doesn't take up so much space
or cpu time.

Rich