mencoder unable to do a simple copy off DVD without losing audio synchronization

[Dallas Legan]

Pretty close to an example from the man pages,

mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -chapter 2-2 dvd://1 -o testcase.avi

which previously worked for me, after upgrade from 9.04 to 12.04
now loses audio/video synchronization, breaking some scripts of mine.

Also, trying

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile testcase.vob -chapter X-X dvd://1

works for X=1, but only captures silence for the audio track
for X>1.

I think the whole mplayer/mencoder executables package
needs to be rebuilt with more recent source code,
I don't have this problem with Debian testing www.debian-multimedia.org
builds.
I think that would be a simpler solution than wasting time trying
to debug mplayer/mencoder, since these problems have probably already
been solved in the source repositories.

Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / <email address hidden> / <email address hidden>
http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com
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