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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 02:54:54PM -0700, Joseph N. Hall wrote:

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[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] When I send the output of mplayer's -vo yuv4mpeg to mpeg2enc through a named pipe, my encoded file looks as if it has dropped frames. How do I prevent this? Apparently, mplayer is dropping frames, or maybe just sending duplicated frames. How do I prevent this? Even hacks like -speed .1 are only partially effective.

Are you using the '-noframedrop' switch?

Hmm, -noframedrop isn't actually documented in the 0.9x man page, and is only mentioned in the examples in 1.x CVS. Maybe someone could add that? (I would be glad to make doc tweaks.) I remember it not working, but I was probably typing -nodropframe instead. :-/ But I *knew* there was a feature for this. Thanks! -joseph