[MPlayer-DOCS] [PATCH] update the mencoder telecine docs
Corey Hickey
bugfood-ml at fatooh.org
Wed Mar 2 02:14:30 CET 2005
D Richard Felker III wrote:
>
> My understanding is that 60000/1001 is just the only rational number
> within the range of tolerance of the NTSC refresh clock, without
> having a ridiculously huge denominator. Thus it was standardized as
> the "official" refresh for NTSC with the advent of digital video.
> 30000/1001 and 24000/1001 are just the refresh converted from fields
> to field-pairs or telecined frames.
>
> I'm sure you can find better references on this somewhere if you
> like...
>
> Rich
>
Hmm. That makes sense. So, I understand the number now, but I still
don't know why a different number had to be chosen. What was wrong with
60/1, 30/1, and 24/1?
I've searched google several more times and still haven't found out why.
I have a few links that come close.
This page says it's a stupid hack:
http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/PulldownSync.html
This page says "don't ask":
http://stream.uen.org/medsol/digvid/html/3B_videoframerate.html
This page looks promising but doesn't seem to explain it:
http://www.ntsc-tv.com/ntsc-main-01.htm
That last one does list a few books that at least _ought_ to. I might
have to go to the library and see if I can find them.
-Corey
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