[MPlayer-dev-eng] help_mp-en.h

[Diego Biurrun]

D Richard Felker III writes:
 > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:06:51PM +0200, Torinthiel wrote:
 > > Could somebody please expand MSGTR_EnterTelecineMode?
 > > "demux_mpg: 3:2 TELECINE detected, enabling inverse telecine fx."
 > > I get that movie is telecine, so conversion to remove it is enabled
 > > automatically. But what is 'fx'?
 > 
 > This message is very misleading. I thought it originally said "fix",
 > not "fx". Perhaps someone committed a 10l to make it even more
 > confusing??

No, Arpi committed the message, the wording was never changed.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/main/help/help_mp-en.h.diff?r1=1.79&r2=1.80

 > Anyway what the message means is that your file/dvd contains "soft
 > telecined" NTSC content, i.e. progressive frames but with special
 > headers to help a settop player telecine it at playback, and that
 > MPlayer is compensating for these to smooth the framerate back to
 > 24fps rather than telecine-stutter (where every other frame is 50%
 > longer).
 > 
 > IMHO the message should read "24fps progressive NTSC content detected,
 > switching framerate." or something to that effect. Using the word
 > telecine here confuses users A LOT... :(

Agree, we could use some better wording here.

Diego