Hello folks, Is there anybody out there to help me? I am almost about to give up :-(( For more than a month I am trying to digitize those VHS tapes via a BT848 card and a standard sound card. No matter what I do, I keep getting bad A/V sync. The problem seems to be caused by those empty/broken/muted/whatever video frames that are sent by the VHS recorder when it gets tracking problems (e.g. whenever there is a switch from one recording to the next on the same VHS tape). I have tried virtually every possible combination of the -noskip, -forceidx, -noidx, -framedrop, -hardframedrop, -mc, and whatever options I could think of. But I could not come up with a combination that works properly. I even tried the hack that was suggested in http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mencoder-users/2009-November/010945.html on this list to stop the capturing process and run mencoder -forceidx -ovc copy -oac copy capture.avi fixed.avi while it is halted. Still bad sync. In mplayer, the result looks like the bad video frames are played about double as fast as they should be played and audio is played with correct speed. In reality, there are not enough video frames captured during the tracking period, I guess. I can confirm this from the debug output of the capturing process. The fps value drops to about 12fps when I capture such line noise. Here is what I use to capture: mencoder tv:// -tv outfmt=yv12:driver=v4l2:input=1:fps=25:quality=100:norm=pal:buffersize=100:forceaudio:alsa:adevice=hw.0,0,0:amode=1:immediatemode=0:width=768:height=576 -noskip -oac copy -ovc copy -of avi -o outfile.avi Any ideas ?
