Daniel, Thank you very much for explaining WHY I was getting the sync problem. Things make much more sense to me now. These tapes are 25+ years old, and the player is at least 15, without being tuned up for many years. Too bad nobody else could give me that answer (and I have posted on MANY different lists/sites for a long time). I did try mplayer -dumpstream, but I kept getting a core dump, and nothing in any log (any that I know of). With VLC, I do get A-V in sync, but I can't get the video resolution and quality that I got with mencoder. That was mainly (I believe) from the "-tv" options "mjpeg" and "decimation", which did the mjpeg compression on the card's hardware, and also gave a 704x480 screen. When I watch the VLC captured video in full screen (especially with a good video card and nice monitor) I see some pixelation (with VLC) that I didn't with mencoder. I do get a lot of XRuns, though with VLC. Any ideas? But, at least it is capturing in sync now :-). If you have any suggestions for re-processing the captured video (via mencoder perhaps) to improve the VHS image/sound, I would love to know. Thanks again. ken 2009/12/9 "Ing. Daniel Rozsny?" <daniel at rozsnyo.com> > Hi, > > Ken Bass wrote: > > Hi all, newbie here - so please bear with me :-) > > > > In short, I am trying to capture video from vhs, via a tv capture card. > But > > the A-V is out of sync - audio lags video. Actually, it becomes > > progresssively worse as the recording goes on. > > I've tried the same thing - recording from VHS. The problem is that > with a bad vhs tape (or a slow motor) you get rather a variable frame > rate video than an exact 25 (or 30) fps one. > > I've solved this by running VLC as a capture and encoding to mpeg2 ts > and using mplayer -dumpstream to record the stream. Both on different > computers, to avoid problems with disk buffers, etc.. > > With mplayer I can not get recorded analog television either, and the > signal was better than on vhs. > > Daniel > > But no luck. > > > > I have been fighting with this for a long time. So any help/pointers will > be > > greatly appreciated. > > > > TIA > > > > ken > > _______________________________________________ > > MPlayer-users mailing list > > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users > _______________________________________________ > MPlayer-users mailing list > MPlayer-users at mplayerhq.hu > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users >