Re: Fw: [Advocate Play Ogg] Two thoughts: automated conversion, and radio4all.net.

[Alexandro Colorado]

Quoting Michael Fötsch <address@hidden>:

> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> > > I thought about a similar thing for videos, where I find it even more
> > > difficult to do a conversion.
> > Have you tried ffmpeg2theora?
>
> Yep, I did that with a YouTube video once when my curiosity was   
> stronger than my dislike for unfree formats. ;-)
>
> The sound ended up being completely out-of-sync with the pictures.   
> While there was a command-line switch for this, that's just what I   
> mean by "more difficult". It probably isn't impossible, although I   
> never tried to convert RealVideo (is that possible at all?), or   
> Windows Media (???) or other dubious formats. I can temporarily live  
>  with a free implementation of a patented format, but I won't run a   
> Windows codec DLL within mplayer or whatever the state of the art is  
>  in this area.
>
> > True, but as long as you follow DMCA safe harbor, you should be immune.
>
> (Famous last words...)
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> M.F.

I use the youtube-dl script that basically is a perl language script  
that use mencoder with some flags.

I didn't experience any sync issue however I have experienced de-sync  
with ffmpeg2theora. What I conclude is the issue from the  
ffmpeg2theora flags that will have issues with sound. So the issue is  
not the flash video but the encoding on the theora end. I wonder if it  
might be an issue of ffmpeg as opposed to mencoder.