[MPlayer-users] -noskip causes: Too many audio packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8257536 bytes)

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:55:46AM +0200, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
> I'm used the latest CVS release of mplayer/mencoder to rip a dvd to avi:
> 
> mencoder dvd://1 -alang en -ovc copy -oac copy -noskip -dvd-device
> /scratch/movie.dump -o movie.avi
> 
> After 15% it crashes with the error message:
> 
> Too many audio packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8257536 bytes).
> 
> Why is that? It doesn't happen if I omit the flag "-noskip".

Because audio and video run too much out of sync when you don't allow
MPlayer to skip frames. My experience says using -noskip doesn't really
make sense without -mc 0. I could be wrong though *g*

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger