On 3/25/2010 3:36 PM, Uoti Urpala wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 10:13 -0400, TJ wrote: > >> When playing HD files encoded with h.264, video progressively goes out of sync >> with (lags behind) the audio. I tried it on 2 different computers. Here are the >> commands I used: >> > >> I am using MPlayer SVN-r29796-4.3.4. >> > >> I was thinking maybe this has something to do with the monitor refresh rate >> being 60Hz while the video is 59.94Hz. >> > Yes this problem is most likely related to the frame rates. It's a > limitation of the VDPAU driver (also shared by some other video outputs) > in MPlayer svn. > > Try compiling a player from > git://repo.or.cz/mplayer-build.git > > That has superior VDPAU support and should avoid this problem. > (Depending on your linux distro there may be precompiled packages > available in case you don't want to compile yourself.) > Is it drifting out of sync only during playback or also when you seek forward. Say you start playback in the middle - is this also out of sync? If this is the case I doubt it is related to the display driver but happens at encoding time.