Converting MKV to AVI [SOLVED?]

Tue May 11 21:15:40 UTC 2010

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 16:42 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2010 15:51:44 -0430
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > > 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.  
> > 
> > Just to close this off, I reported the problem on the RPMFusion BZ and a
> > fixed version is now available. Cheers for FOSS :-)
> 
> Now if we could only solve the ultimate mystery: Why the folks designing
> video standards selected audio and video frame rates with no common
> divisors :-).

There are some mysteries that Man is not meant to understand :-) Another
one is why the various broadcast standards bodies defined digital TV
systems that preserve the incompatibilities between the various analogue
systems of the past.

poc