[MPlayer-users] Audio and video slowly drifting out of sync

[Timothy Jones]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi>wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 10:13 -0400, TJ wrote:
> > When playing HD files encoded with h.264, video progressively goes out of
> sync
> > with (lags behind) the audio. I tried it on 2 different computers. Here
> are the
> > commands I used:
>
> > I am using MPlayer SVN-r29796-4.3.4.
>
> > I was thinking maybe this has something to do with the monitor refresh
> rate
> > being 60Hz while the video is 59.94Hz.
>
> Yes this problem is most likely related to the frame rates. It's a
> limitation of the VDPAU driver (also shared by some other video outputs)
> in MPlayer svn.
>
> Try compiling a player from
> git://repo.or.cz/mplayer-build.git
>
> That has superior VDPAU support and should avoid this problem.
> (Depending on your linux distro there may be precompiled packages
> available in case you don't want to compile yourself.)
>

>
Outi, my friend, I am compiling mplayer-git now and hopefully that solves my
problem completely. I will post results when I try it. -TJ