Hello everybody, I'm trying to convert a series of RV40 .mkv cartoons to XVID's but the resulting .avi file always has a very huge lag between audio and video. "Very huge" means approx. 4 sec of lag after 40 sec of video I'm using : ~> mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc xvid -xvidencopts cartoon:bitrate=700 01.mkv -o 01.avi which outputs : MEncoder SVN-r28379-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team\nCPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 420 @ 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 22, Stepping: 1) success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xa926deb [mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_REAL/RV40), -vid 0 [mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_VORBIS), -aid 0, -alang fre [mkv] Track ID 3: audio (A_VORBIS), -aid 1, -alang eng [mkv] Track ID 4: audio (A_VORBIS), -aid 2, -alang eng [mkv] Track ID 5: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 0, -slang fre [mkv] Track ID 6: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 1, -slang fre [mkv] Track ID 7: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 2, -slang fre [mkv] Will play video track 1. Matroska file format detected. VIDEO: [RV40] 640x480 24bpp 30.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:31 fourcc:0x30345652 size:640x480 fps:30.000 ftime:=0.0333 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->192000) Selected audio codec: [ffvorbis] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Vorbis decoder) ========================================================================== xvid: using library version 1.2.1 (build xvid-1.2.1) Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drvc.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.dll, /usr/lib/win32/drvc.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/drvc.dll Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.dll. Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS! VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder Selected video codec: [rv40] vfm: realvid (Linux RealPlayer 9 RV40 decoder) ========================================================================== MP3 audio selected. VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar I420) VDec: using Planar I420 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. videocodec: XviD (640x480 fourcc=44495658 [XVID]) xvid: par=0/0 (vga11), displayed=640x480, sampled=640x480 xvid: CBR Rate Control -- bitrate=700kbit/s Writing header... ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3. Setting audio delay to 0.024s. Writing header... ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3. Setting audio delay to 0.024s. Pos: 0.2s 7f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [0:0] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 0.5s 17f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [0:32] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 0.9s 27f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [0:31] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 1.3s 37f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [71:32] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 1.7s 48f ( 0%) 42.90fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.023 [60:49] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 2.0s 58f ( 0%) 26.94fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.023 [146:84]] 1 duplicate frame(s)! (...) (i didn't let the conversion occur till the end because it's very slow on my system and i can see the lag long before the end of the conversion) I also tried to convert to msmpeg4 with lavc : ~> mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4:vbitrate=800 -o 01.avi 01.mkv which gives the following output : MEncoder SVN-r28379-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team\nCPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 420 @ 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 22, Stepping: 1) success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0xa926deb [mkv] Track ID 1: video (V_REAL/RV40), -vid 0 [mkv] Track ID 2: audio (A_VORBIS), -aid 0, -alang fre [mkv] Track ID 3: audio (A_VORBIS), -aid 1, -alang eng [mkv] Track ID 4: audio (A_VORBIS), -aid 2, -alang eng [mkv] Track ID 5: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 0, -slang fre [mkv] Track ID 6: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 1, -slang fre [mkv] Track ID 7: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8), -sid 2, -slang fre [mkv] Will play video track 1. Matroska file format detected. VIDEO: [RV40] 640x480 24bpp 30.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:31 fourcc:0x30345652 size:640x480 fps:30.000 ftime:=0.0333 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->192000) Selected audio codec: [ffvorbis] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Vorbis decoder) ========================================================================== Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drvc.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/drvc.dll, /usr/lib/win32/drvc.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/drvc.dll Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.dll. Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS! VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder Selected video codec: [rv40] vfm: realvid (Linux RealPlayer 9 RV40 decoder) ========================================================================== MP3 audio selected. VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar I420) VDec: using Planar I420 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. videocodec: libavcodec (640x480 fourcc=33766964 [div3]) Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Pos: 0.2s 7f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [0:0] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 0.6s 17f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [0:32] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 1.0s 27f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [0:32] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 1.3s 37f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [76:32] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 1.7s 48f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.023 [82:56] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 2.1s 58f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.023 [237:88] 1 duplicate frame(s)! [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..12797] [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127103] [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127109] [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 [msmpeg4 @ 0x8c52080]warning, clipping 1 dct coefficients to -127..127 (...) Pos: 595.0s 16228f (49%) 35.24fps Trem: 7min 137mb A-V:0.023 [730:224] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 595.4s 16238f (49%) 35.25fps Trem: 7min 137mb A-V:0.023 [730:224] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 595.7s 16248f (49%) 35.25fps Trem: 7min 137mb A-V:0.023 [730:224] 1 duplicate frame(s)! Pos: 595.9s 16251f (49%) 35.26fps Trem: 7min 137mb A-V:0.033 [730:224] Too many audio packets in the buffer: (4100 in 748904 bytes). Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed? For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option. Flushing video frames. Writing index... Writing header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. Video stream: 730.301 kbit/s (91287 B/s) size: 54395267 bytes 595.867 secs 16251 frames Audio stream: 224.878 kbit/s (28109 B/s) size: 16764000 bytes 596.376 secs (I let this one run till the end to get the final output because converting to msmpeg4 with lavc is much faster than converting to xvid and as you can see something went wrong at about the half of the file) Could anybody explain to me what i'm doing wrong ? Thanks ! -- "the beginner scorns criticism, The wise soul carefully weighs it and the master says "yes, of course!" "instant karma"