sync issues

[Christophe Massiot]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> > Could you try with "--synchro ipb" ? I would like to know if it changes
> > anything.
> 
> Yes, that seems smoother.  But sometimes it's hard to tell.  Overall I'd
> say it's better.  What does it do actually ?

It forces the decoder to decode *all frames*, and bypasses the frame
dropping algorithm. I'd really love to know if it's better, compile with
--enable-stats and run with -v to see how many frames are droppped.

> > No it doesn't work in overlay or Xvideo mode. It depends on the output
> > plug-in.
> 
> Ah. Is that a vlc limitation or a general problem ? Can't you overlay them
> not using xvideo ?
 
It is a VLC limitation. It should be solved quite soon now.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.