[mythtv-users] transcoding perfect dvd rips to xvid

Mike Schiller mdschiller.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 01:57:22 UTC 2007


Thanks, I think I'll stay away from the mp3 audio for now.

On 2/20/07, K Barter <kbarter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Does encoding the audio to MP3 preserve the number of input audio
> channels?
> >
> >
>
> From some of the reading that I have done on various forums, and personal
> experience, there seems to be some issues with audio sync when using MP3 as
> the audio format.  The reasons are too technical for my little brain, but I
> have seen examples where an mp3 audio stream is far enough out of sync that
> it looked like I was watching a foreign film with English dubbed in poorly.
>
> That being said, I also have a number of files converted with mp3 audio that
> are OK.
>
> The audio issue happens ofter enough for me that I accept larger file sizes
> by using the -oac copy parameter.
>
> Kevin
>
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