[MPlayer-users] bug report: flash video (flv) video is out of sync

[Robert La Ferla]

On Feb 20, 2007, at 12:32 AM, Rashkae wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 22:47 -0500, Robert La Ferla wrote:
>> When trying to playback some FLV (flash video) files, the video plays
>> at a much faster rate than the audio (which plays at normal speed.)
>> This at least occurs on Mac OS X 10.4 (Intel) but I have yet to try
>> it on other platforms.
>
> Courtesy of Reimar Döffinger
>
> -mc 10 at least improves it, -correct-pts fixes it.
>
> My version of mplayer doesn't have a -correct-pts, but I can confirm
> that -mc 10 -delay .2 works well for me all around.


-correct-pts did the trick.  What does it do?  I couldn't find any  
reference to it in the man page.  Also, VLC plays the file fine so  
perhaps mplayer needs to make -correct-pts the default or do some  
sort of auto-detection...  I don't know enough about it to say exactly.