[MPlayer-users] -noskip - what exactly does it do?

[Dirk]

Hello everybody,

I am
1. recording DVB streams from sat using mencoder -ovc copy,
2. then recode it to a smaller bitrate and deinterlace it (-vop 
lavcdeint) in a second step and
3. watch it with mplayer (both 1.0pre3 at the moment, but my problems 
exists since 0.90rc5).

I have been looking for the following problem for a long time: When 
watching the movies everything seems perferct. But slow horizontal 
movements are jerky. Especially when the camara is turning from one side 
to another. About every second, the picture seems to freeze or even move 
back a bit - not more than one or two frames. I can see this in almost 
every recording I have.

A always searched for a playback problem, but is seems to be in the 
recorded file. I tried many switches to fix it. Now it seems -skip in 
mencoder solves the problem. But I don't understand it quite. And I am 
not sure, if this really is the right method.

Maybe this problem does have something todo with the 24fps vs. 25 fps 
problem.

Thank you for your answers and thank you to everyone who helped to 
create mplayer - it's great.


Dirk