On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 07:16:44PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > - I get many "Skipping frame!" errors: [...] > When I add the "-noskip" option, first few frames are OK but later I get > this error: [...] > Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8249187 bytes). [...] > In both cases I can't watch the movie, the first is distorted, the second > plays too slow. > > Has anyone an idea where could be the problem or how should I continue? DVD-Video can be 23.976 fps or one of 25 fps or 29.97 fps (depending on the television format). Some video streams switch framerates in the middle (e.g. a 24 fps film with bits of video mixed in). That, plus the fact AVI doesn't support variable framerate, means you often can't transmux a VOB to AVI: mencoder can only keep the original rate and try to compensate by dropping or duplicating frames, but when you're stream-copying it can cause problems like you're seeing. > Recoding to mpeg-4 format works but I'd like to try something more without > repeatedly reading the disc... I'd go with Alexander's suggestion. Use mplayer to dump the VOB. Of course ideally, mencoder would support muxing VFR streams, but... -- Web: purl.org/net/ddawson/web/ Bkmrks: purl.org/net/ddawson/bookmarks/ Jabber: danieldawson at jabber.org Google: danielcdawson at gmail.com Yahoo! IM: danielcdawson ifMUD: DanDawson Wikipedia: ddawson
