[mythtv-users] Audio out of sync in Mytharchive generated DVD

Paul Harrison mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Mon Apr 9 22:05:58 UTC 2007


Chris Weiland wrote:
> I'm trying to archive a few of my recordings to DVD using Mytharchive, 
> which worked beautifully, except that the audio was out of sync by 
> about 3-5 seconds.  It was out of sync by a consistent amount through 
> the entire one hour recording.  Just to make sure that it wasn't a 
> result of myth's dvd player, I tried playing the DVD in xine and a 
> commercial DVD player (PowerDVD) on a different computer with the same 
> results.  The audio WAS in sync during the DVD's splash screen, but 
> just not while playing back the recording.
>
> So, I have it narrowed down to a problem with the actual generation of 
> the DVD a/v streams.  The first time I tried to make the DVD, I had it 
> set to PAL instead of NTSC, but the 2nd time around, I used NTSC, like 
> I should, however, I had the same result (with a little better 
> picture).  The wiki article also suggests setting "Always use 
> Transcode", which was on in both tries.  I got all of the dependencies 
> from apt except mjpegtools, which I had to compile myself.  I assume 
> that the "Transcode" dependency listed on the wiki is mythtv's built 
> in transcoder - if not, that could be my problem.
>
> Other than that, I don't really know what to make of it.  I don't 
> really want to mess around with it until I know what to do because 
> each try takes about 2 hours to burn, plus the disk.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Which version are you using?

Paul H.



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