[MPlayer-users] dumpstream generating non monotone timestamps

[Stefan Sassenberg]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
> On Friday 29 February 2008 16:40:56 Stefan Sassenberg wrote:
>> Nico Sabbi wrote:
>>
>> On Friday 29 February 2008 16:18:23 sean darcy wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to convert a dvd to an avi file to stream to a ps3.
>>>> So I used dumpsteam in mplayer to create a vob file:
>>>>
>>>> mplayer dvd://1 -dumpstream -dumpfile dvd.vob
>>>>
>>>> and then tried to use ffmpeg to put the vob into an avi
>>>> ccontainer:
>>>>
>>>> ffmpeg -i dvd.vob -vcodec copy -acodec copy dvd.avi
>>>> FFmpeg version SVN-r12192, Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Fabrice
>>>> Bellard,
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> Is there some other option for dumpstream I need? How do I get
>>>> "monotone timestamps"?
>>>>
>>>> BTW, I've tried 3 different dvd's. Same result.
>>> "dump" is self-describing: it dumps whatever the stream media
>>> contains, in this case mpeg-ps with resetting timestamps.
>>>
>>> You can still remux from dvd to avi: mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy
>>> -o x.avi dvd://
>> ...which ends in an audio (or video?) delay of ~0.2 seconds on my
>> system for the streams I record from dvbt. I use projectx for demux
>> and then mplex for muxing.
>>
>> Stefan
> 
> well, if the delay is fixed you can use -delay as a workaround
But this works for mplayer only, not mencoder, right? That would only be 
ok as long as I don't want to give my movies to others. And as long as I 
do always know which of my movies need to be delayed and which do not.

I'm quite happy since I use projectx.