On Thursday 20 November 2008 15:36:05 Khelben Blackstaff wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:26:34 +0100 > > Nico Sabbi <Nicola.Sabbi at poste.it> wrote: > > > Is this normal and why it is happening ? > > > > mostly, and mostly not (it's the usual black magick at work > > when playing mpeg streams). > > > > You should rely on the data reported by -identify to get the > > exact video duration, at least when playing dvds > > Thank you for replying so quickly. > > Both "mplayer -identify -frames 0 dvd://1 -aid 128" and > "mplayer -identify -frames 0 dvd://1 -aid 137" report the > following. > > ID_DVD_TITLE_1_LENGTH=6078.840 > ID_LENGTH=6078.84 > > So, i guess the correct duration is 6078 seconds, but when mencoder > finishes the transcoding the resulting file has 6078 secs if it has > ac3 audio and 5971 if it has dts. what are the lengths reported if you run $ mplayer -novideo -ao pcm:file=test.wav dvd://1 -aid 128 dvd://1 $ mplayer -identify test.wav $ mplayer -novideo -ao pcm:file=test.wav dvd://1 -aid 137 dvd://1 $ mplayer -identify test2.wav
