[MPlayer-users] problems with NTSC

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:21:35AM +0000, Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
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> >
> >>1)  23.976, 29.97 or 25: what do I choose? MPlayer says my vobs are 
> >>29.97... How do I know about NTSC dvds? With European dvds I always used 
> >>25...
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> >Almost all NTSC DVD's are 23.976. The only exceptions are ones that
> >were originally made for TV broadcast or VHS, e.g. DVD's of TV series,
> >some anime, etc. MEncoder will make it clear to you very quickly if
> >you pick the wrong -ofps... :)
> >
> at least pre6 doesnt unfortunately warn me about that. I just tried ~1h 

By warn, I mean all the duplicate/skipped frame messages that spam
your console. You should get very few (or better yet none) of those of
your -ofps is right.

> And I am aware of legal stuff ;) but 1) come on! 2) lots of my encodings 

I didn't say anything about legal stuff.

Rich