[MEncoder-users] FPS problem

[Peter Hartshorn]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:49 pm, Martin Ankerl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to rip a DVD (Hero), which according to mplayer -identify
> is encoded with 25.0 fps.
>
> Unfortunately this number is not reliable, so I use
> mplayer -benchmark, and divide the frames by the time. For the DVD I
> get about 24.996 fps. I use this command to encode:
>
> mencoder dvd://1 -oac copy -ovc lavc -ofps 24.996

Personally I use "-mc 0 -noskip" for both video (2 pass) and the audio. I have 
not had a problem with sync for months.

>
> but I get a lot of frame drops. I have also tried 25.0 frames, but
> this too results in a lot of frame drops.
>
> How can I encode this movie correctly, without frame drops? Afterwards
> I want to extract the audio into an ogg file, and merge it. I am
> afraid that if I use noskip, that later the audio gets out of sync
> when merging.