On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 15:42 -0500, Rolf Ernst wrote: > 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. I think your mail is a bit confusingly worded as you're replying to my comments but clearly addressing the original poster. Anyway, what he said about the effects of -framedrop makes it almost certain that it's not an encoding problem.
