[MPlayer-users] Which default framerate?

[Jukka Tastula]

On Wednesday 26 June 2002 04:21, GD Lewis wrote:

> Is there a more standard rate that I should use like maybe 25 fps?  Or
> is it pretty much hit and miss?

Most DVD rips seem to come at 23.98fps (not 24fps) (inverse telecined NTSC 
video). Unfortunately there are some less educated people out there who keep 
making 29.97fps (not 30fps) (3:2 pulldown'd film) rips/tv-caps. These work 
but the picture is annoyingly jerky. Your best bet is to look at mplayer 
output for the file, you should find something like 

VIDEO:  [DIV3]  624x336  24bpp  23.98 fps  722.6 kbps (88.2 kbyte/s)

where the important part is 23.98fps so you'd need -vfr 4 for this clip. If it 
says 29.97 you'd use -vfr 1 etc.