Re: mencoder - Skipped and duplicate frames when recording from TV

[deloptes <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Marko Randjelovic wrote:

> On Sat,  2 Jan 2016 11:53:03 +0100
> Marko Randjelovic <markoran@eunet.rs> wrote:
> 
>> I eliminated all but essential options, but nothing changed. I can
>> further try only without audio to see if the problem is related to mixing
>> audio and video.
> 
> With 'noaudio' option, messages about skipped/duplicate frames do not
> appear anymore and recorded file plays smoothlty, so appears that the
> problem is in mixing audio and video frames. I use default container
> (AVI). I tried to switch to Matroska and MPEG but got even more
> problems.
> 
> I also tried to lower video quality to make sure it's not because of
> slowness of hard drive and it isn't (frames are still dropped).
> 
> Regards,
> Marko

It seems AAC is good one for x264. Check the video vs audio bitrate - try
with fixed bitrate

regards