On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 01:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The MKV files are for standard NTSC or PAL broadcast TV (not even HD > in > most cases, though they could be). I've so far been unsuccessful in > hitting reasonable combination of options for producing a useful > result. > I've tried ffmpeg, transcode and mencode, but the resulting videos > tend > to have have noticeable blocking artefacts (despite playing with > bitrates) and severe sound synch problems. The blocking artefacts are clearly a matter of fiddling with bitrates, so no problem. It was the sound synch that was really confusing me. I finally tracked down this discussion: https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue1756 which has some interesting things to say about the error message I already remarked on: "... codec frame rate differs from container frame rate ...". It's a problem with Matroska files. The solution was to build a new version of ffmpeg from SVN. That solves the synch problem and the rest is just a matter of playing with the settings. Thanks to all who offered advice, especially Sean Darcy <seandarcy2@xxxxxxxxx>. Here's hoping a fixed version of ffmpeg makes it into F13 (or even F12 updates). poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines