mpegplayer A/V sync - please report experiences

[Colombo]

Last updates lost AV sync on my ipod nano! Audio faster than video about ~1-2 secs.
Please fix it faster!

[linuxstb]

Last updates lost AV sync on my ipod nano! Audio faster than video about ~1-2 secs.
Please fix it faster!

Can you provide a sample file?

[Colombo]

what a sample file?
any video files on computer playing normal, but on ipod - audio faster

[linuxstb]

what a sample file?
any video files on computer playing normal, but on ipod - audio faster

Not for everyone - files I encode myself play fine, and others report audio sync is fine as well.

Have you enabled both the Limit FPS and Skip Frames options?

[linuxstb]

Okay, on my Nano, the audio and video stay in sync just fine, it just drops a LOT of frames.

I have such situation too, and to make video smooth without skipping so many frames i set off Skip Frames option. Then video became good, and even A/V sync became good in some videos, but in other A/V sync is bad, and in my opinion for Nanos new improvement isnt good, cause before it video and A/V sync was nice but now...  

Can you try the latest current build?  This should improve playback when Skip Frames is On.

[Colombo]

im sorry, video faster than audio 1-2 secs

[Llorean]

Colombo, you're going to have to be more clear than that, and give more information including a sample file.

[Colombo]

And when I quit mpegplayer, then start any video again, screen is black, and I must reboot iPod.

[Llorean]

We are not experiencing the A/V sync problem you're having (the freeze after quitting and playing another file is known, though) so we cannot do anything without a way to make it happen on one of our players.

[Colombo]

its just video start showing 1sec later than audio.

[Llorean]

Yes, but if everything works in OUR videos, then we need to know what's different about your video to cause this problem.

Which means we need a sample file.

Just telling us what happens is not enough information to fix it.

[Colombo]

problem start at revision 12913, Mon Mar 26 01:32:31 2007 UTC

Can you give me build Revision 12884 for test?

[Didro]

Okay, on my Nano, the audio and video stay in sync just fine, it just drops a LOT of frames.

I have such situation too, and to make video smooth without skipping so many frames i set off Skip Frames option. Then video became good, and even A/V sync became good in some videos, but in other A/V sync is bad, and in my opinion for Nanos new improvement isnt good, cause before it video and A/V sync was nice but now...  

Can you try the latest current build?  This should improve playback when Skip Frames is On.

I've tried it. Looks better than yesterday but anyway its worse than before improvement.

[Llorean]

Didro: Yes, but before the improvement if your file had been longer it would've fallen out of sync over time. Try encoding files that are within the limitations of the hardware.

Colombo: What will testing on an earlier revision do? If there's a problem, give us a sample file. But we're not going back to the older code, because it IS worse overall, so saying "It worked in an older revision" won't do much good. We need a sample file, as I keep saying.

[Didro]

Try encoding files that are within the limitations of the hardware.

Please, can you explain me what is the "files that are within the limitation of the hardware".   I'm not good in English so its hard to understand.