Hi, I am using mencoder to covert my video to x264/mp3 format, but just noticed that the converted avi file's audio stream is about 10% shorter than the video stream: Video stream: 196.012 kbit/s (24501 B/s) size: 656639 bytes 26.800 secs 405 frames Audio stream: 46.635 kbit/s (5829 B/s) size: 140184 bytes 24.048 secs The command that I used is: mencoder -noskip -of avi -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=48:vol=2.2 -ovc x264 -vf harddup -srate 8000 -o imgp2161-.avi imgp2161.avi Here is its full log: MPlayer SVN-r29809 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x29d8f3e AVI file format detected. [aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0 [aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1 VIDEO: [MJPG] 320x240 24bpp 15.000 fps 1370.2 kbps (167.3 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x47504A4D size:320x240 fps:15.000 ftime:=0.0667 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 16000->16000) Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM) ========================================================================== Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 0 Opening video filter: [harddup] ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Unsupported PixelFormat -1 Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG) ========================================================================== MP3 audio selected. There are no EDL actions to take care of. Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8 [swscaler @ 0xca3620]BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p using MMX2 [swscaler @ 0xca3620]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling [swscaler @ 0xca3620]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling [swscaler @ 0xca3620]using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12 like) [swscaler @ 0xca3620]320x240 -> 320x240 x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1 x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Slow x264 [info]: profile High, level 1.2 Pos: 0.0s 22f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.140 [0:0] Skipping frame! Pos: 0.0s 32f ( 0%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.140 [0:0] Skipping frame! Pos: 0.0s 42f ( 1%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.140 [0:0] Skipping frame! Writing header...2f ( 1%) 0.00fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.121 [0:0] ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3. Setting audio delay to 0.144s. Writing header... ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3. Setting audio delay to 0.144s. Pos: 229.9s 3501f (99%) 54.45fps Trem: 0min 5mb A-V:0.107 [145:46] Flushing video frames. Writing index... Writing header... ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3. Setting audio delay to 0.144s. Video stream: 146.033 kbit/s (18254 B/s) size: 4256861 bytes 233.200 secs 3501 frames Audio stream: 46.201 kbit/s (5775 B/s) size: 1330992 bytes 230.472 secs x264 [info]: frame I:24 Avg QP:23.76 size: 6928 x264 [info]: frame P:1751 Avg QP:27.20 size: 1957 x264 [info]: frame B:1723 Avg QP:30.38 size: 385 x264 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 4.6% 84.4% 9.9% 1.0% 0.0% x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 4.1% 50.8% 45.1% x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 2.0% 15.7% 1.9% P16..4: 28.8% 21.0% 10.2% 0.0% 0.0% skip:20.5% x264 [info]: mb B I16..4: 0.2% 1.6% 0.2% B16..8: 21.3% 1.5% 0.9% direct: 2.8% skip:71.5% L0:36.3% L1:40.9% BI:22.8% x264 [info]: 8x8 transform intra:78.6% inter:49.4% x264 [info]: coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 56.9% 58.7% 14.8% inter: 15.9% 9.0% 0.3% x264 [info]: i16 v,h,dc,p: 38% 12% 8% 42% x264 [info]: i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 34% 16% 30% 3% 3% 3% 3% 4% 4% x264 [info]: i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 20% 20% 14% 6% 9% 8% 9% 6% 8% x264 [info]: ref P L0: 71.7% 13.4% 9.4% 5.5% x264 [info]: ref B L0: 82.4% 10.6% 7.0% x264 [info]: SSIM Mean Y:0.9664429 x264 [info]: kb/s:146.03 See, this time it is a longer file, and the audio stream is also shorter. Any way I can troubleshoot this? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/