[MEncoder-users] DVD error Too many audio packets in the buffer

[Laine Lee]

On 12/8/09 11:05 AM, "Mark van Rossum" <mvanross at inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to play (and rip) a DVD, but mplayer fails with the error
>  Too many audio packets in the buffer
> 
> I also copied the .vob file onto my drive, but this does not solve it.
> 
> vlc and xine play (and rip) the DVD and the copied file without
> problem.
> 
> The problem occurs both with the SVN version of today 8/12/09
> and the fedora package
> mplayer-1.0-0.111.20091029svn.fc12
> 

I'm not sure I'll be able to help but since you haven't received a lot of
responses, I'm wondering if you might consider changing your method a
little. If you can just encode to mpg with the mpeg2video codec, you may be
able to solve the problem by using the muxrate option for mpeg output.
Here's an example of what I do pretty routinely. It's for 16X9. You might
want to crop for others.

mencoder -vf scale=720:480,harddup,hqdn3d=0:0:4:4 -oac copy -ovc lavc -of
mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf:muxrate=40000 -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg2video:vb_strategy=1:brd_scale=2:trell:mbd=2:precmp=2:subcmp=2:cm
p=2:dia=-10:predia=-10:cbp:mv0:vqmin=1:lmin=1:dc=10:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_mi
nrate=7500:vbitrate=9000:vrc_maxrate=9800:keyint=15:aspect=16/9:acodec=ac3
-dvd-device /dev/rdisk3 -ofps 24000/1001 -o $output.mgg dvd://12

Laine Lee