Hi, I found that the EDL (edit decision list) operations are not OK for videos taken from Pentax digital cameras (at least with the Pentax Optio T10 that I have). I've reported it a while ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user/61076 Subject: EDL operation not OK for Pentax camera videos Newsgroups: gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user Date: 2009-08-17 I've updated the mplayer/mencoder package since, but the problem persists. The symptoms are: - when playing with mplayer imgp2186.avi -edl imgp2186.avi.edl it doesn't play well: sound turns to static noise, and video ended abruptly. Using -hr-edl-seek, or -force-idx doesn't help here: $ mplayer -hr-edl-seek imgp2186.avi -edl imgp2186.avi.edl Unknown option on the command line: -hr-edl-seek Error parsing option on the command line: -hr-edl-seek MPlayer SVN-r29980 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team $ mplayer -force-idx imgp2186.avi -edl imgp2186.avi.edl Unknown option on the command line: -force-idx Error parsing option on the command line: -force-idx MPlayer SVN-r29980 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Using '-mc 0' can help mplayer plays to the end, but will get Cannot sync MAD frame:-15.100 ct: -1.467 221/221 6% 4% 0.1% 2 0 right after first skip, and no sound afterward. - when playing the converted imgp2186-.avi with mplayer imgp2186-.avi I get the same result as above: sound turns to static noise, and video ended abruptly. The imgp2186-.avi file was converted with: mencoder -of avi -oac mp3lame -ovc x264 -x264encopts trellis=1:mixed_refs:8x8dct:crf=25 -srate 8000 -edl imgp2186.avi.edl -o imgp2186-.avi imgp2186.avi Using '-hr-edl-seek' can help mplayer plays to the end, but will get Cannot sync MAD frame:-15.100 ct: -1.467 221/221 6% 4% 0.1% 2 0 right after first skip, and no sound afterward. I've upload the imgp2163.avi file to ftp mplayerhq.hu /MPlayer/incoming/, as "mencoder_coverts_audio_stream_shorter.avi", and imgp2186.avi.edl as "mencoder_coverts_audio_stream_shorter.avi.edl". Please investigate. Thanks FYI, my mplayer/mencoder: $ apt-cache policy mplayer mplayer: Installed: 1:1.0.rc2svn20091208-0.0 Candidate: 1:1.0.rc2svn20091208-0.0 Version table: *** 1:1.0.rc2svn20091208-0.0 0 50 http://debian-multimedia.gnali.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/