Hi,
I normally use ffmpeg to convert .avi videos to mpeg so i can burn them to disk as vcd's and watch on my dvd player (legal videos ofc).

After converting to mpeg there is usually around a 1 second time difference between the sound and the video (it seems to get worse the further you get through the video), so far ive been able to put up with it.
But recently ive been converting videos and the delay is even worse, and now im wondering if there is anyway to fix this, or why it happens?

I know i can convert them without the delay because i booted into windows (the first time in about 6 months) and tried converting them, although it took around 2 hours (whereas ffmpeg takes maybe 10-15 mins), the sound was still in sync (i used cusofts avi to vcd). I tried running the program in wine, but it didnt work, and this wouldnt have been what i wanted anyway.

So is there an all linux solution to my problem? lol.

Thanks Guys
Kane

Oh also, ive got a samba fileserver running, and i currently mount it like:
mount -t smbfs -o username=blah,password=blah,dmask=777,fmask=777,umask=000 //192.168.1.15/media /mnt/Network/Fileserver

How would i convert this to an fstab entry? And would it automount it when the filerserver came online/offline?

Cheers

The dmask and fmask allow you to use different permissions for files then for directories. This allows you to mask out the X bit for files but not for directories. Your fmask and dmask are wrong however, but the umask changes the permissions for everything.
You could use dmask=000,fmask=111 and not use umask. The mask bits deny permissions.

Also double check whether your kernel supports cifs instead of smbfs. The smbfs kernel module is being superceded by the cifs module which has better Linux/Unix to Linux/Unix features.

It may be better to use a credentials file, containing the username and password. Issuing a mount command with the password makes it visible to other uses.

You might also want to use the noauto option so the system doesn't try to mount the partition on boot. There is a
_netdev option which delays mounting until the network is up, but if the host at 192.168.1.15 is down you might still have a problem.

The fstab file has its own manpage as well: man 5 fstab
If you have the kernel source installed, look in the Documentation/filesystems/ directory for a cifs.txt file.

thanks for that

ill have a look into it.

Anyone got any suggestions about my video conversion?

Thanks