[mythtv-users] Seek problems with Handbrake 0.9.5 high profile encodings

[Mark Lord]

On 12-01-31 05:46 PM, Joey Morris wrote:
> Jason Gillis <spuppet at comcast.net> wrote on Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 09:59:38AM -0800:
>>
>> I did find today that an MKV container instead of a .m4v results in
>> no drift.  I also don't see any messages in the -v playback logs about
>> video getting ahead of the audio.
>>
>> Is there anyone out there that could confirm this behavior, or
>> perhaps confirm that there might be issues with processing of .m4v
>> files? (I'm assuming ffmpeg handles that, so I'll do some searching
>> about that.)
> 
> I reported a similar issue recently. I had an mp4 that drifted like
> you describe, but then I converted it to mkv and it was fine. I doubt
> the mp4 was generated by handbrake, though.


Late last fall, I noticed that many of my .mp4 files,
which previously played well under Mythtv (summer 2011),
now have stutter issues.  This is 0.24-fixes, latest .git.

Re-packaging them as .mkv gets rid of the stutter.
So I've now done that for most of the .mp4 files in my archives.

Cheers