[MPlayer-users] Jumpy AVIs when encoding from TV tuner

[Richard Dymond]

Jindrich Makovicka said:

>Even worse, it's a feature. MEncoder can occasionally drop a video
>frame (or more precisely insert an empty frame) to maintain the a/v
>sync. But usually it shouldn't be more than about 20 frames/hour.

The question, then, is this: why is mencoder doing such a poor job,
dropping so many frames at a time? Is it being given the run-around by a
crappy driver, perhaps? Should I be using ALSA, for example?

Some experiments are called for...

Richard Dymond