I joined the mplayer mailing list and have tried to seek help/information from those nice folks.. The following is part of one of my exchanges. Maybe the part about the timestamp may be of some help? > I asked a couple specific questions and included some quotes from other > posts to provide an idea of what we're looking at as the cause. I can't > tell you what the exact problem is because we're still trying to figure that > out... And a good place to start is by comparing the differences between > the software that has the problem and software that doesn't. We're > trying to figure out what mplayer does, if anything, with regards to > repacking, the pes layer, pcr data, etc. during the "playback" of a VDR "recording". nothing particular: the pes packetization is as standard as you can get, except that IIRC there's a timestamp on every single frame, rather than once every 0.5-0.7 seconds; this fact alone can make a lot of difference during playback. Does the desync that you are experiencing get worse with time or does it regularly decrease and next increase? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20061103/ccd5bf73/attachment.htm