On Tuesday 24 Jun 2014 13:19:32 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 03:16:27PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 21/06/2014 15:01, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > > What could be amiss there?
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > dodgy source files?
> > 
> > use the mplayer hotkeys that gets them back in sync
> 
> I recently had a file, I think it was a TV recording. I re-encoded it with
> ffmpeg, both audio and video. I think it was here where it complained about
> litter in the audio stream.
> In the end the produced MKV had a huge audio offset of several seconds. I
> used the A/V delay hotkeys, but they had no effect. I could not bring audio
> and video together, so eventually I ditched the files, no point in keeping
> them.

You may want to try -async 2 next time you re-encode them, or set it to do 
more than one pass.

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Regards,
Mick