[MPlayer-users] Problems with NTSC - summary

[Sébastien Person]

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Le Thu, 07 Nov 2002 23:22:48 +0000
Dominik Szczerba <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch> à écrit:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html]  Hi,
> 
> Thank you all who submitted hints on this. This is what I finally
> ended up with:
> 
> - some NTSC dvds wont play/rip on some DVD drives while they will 
> play/rip on others. I tried a few NTSC 29.97 fps movies on a few
> computers.
> 
> - those, who rip/play correctly: I specify a (suggested by 1st pass 
> encoding or calculated myelf) bitrate, but it is wrongly passed to 
> encoder. I need to myltiply the desired bitrate by ~1.2 ( I guess
> that's from 25/29.97, no?) to get proper file length (and bitrate
> used). So I have to say br=1200 if I want br=1000 and a filesize
> coresponding to 1000.
> 
> - all above problems dont apply to PAL dvds (tested some 10 or so)
> 
> So I am glad, but also very tired. Some resolutions I used, you may
> find it handy, they are all multiple of 16:
> 
> 640 x 480   1.33:1
> 640 x 272   2.35:1
> 640 x 336   1.90:1
> 640 x 368   1.74:1
> 
> I also developed some simple scripts that facilitate ripping, 
> sound+subtitles and passes for libavc, if you are interested I could 
> publish them.

It seems interesting .. :)



> 
> thanks to all who helped
> DS
> 
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