[MPlayer-users] Various MKV issues

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:24:24PM +0200, ubitux wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:11:11PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 08:49:17PM +0200, ubitux wrote:
> > > First, the sound is not good and there is a big a-v sync issue related to it.
> > 
> > That is because IMO the file is broken. It claims to have a sample rate to
> > 24 kHz, but it uses AAC with SBR which is 48kHz.
> > -demuxer mkv believes what the container says, -demuxer lavf believes what the
> > AAC bitstream says. While the later is more likely to work well in practice,
> > neither is correct.
> > 
> 
> Well ok. I don't know how it's handled in git repository but it works fine
> on it, maybe there is some kind of patch to get there.

Sorry, yes, I forgot to mention the most practical "solution", use the faad decoder,
e.g. via -ac faad, adding "ac=faad," to the config file, or modifying codecs.conf
to prefer it again over ffaac.