[MPlayer-users] Inconsistant TELECINE DVD

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 01:47:28PM -0700, Shane Wegner wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to encode a movie with mplayer and when mplayer
> is playing this title, it gives the following throughout.
> 
> demux_mpg: 3:2 TELECINE detected, enabling inverse telecine
> fx. FPS changed to 23.976!
> 
> demux_mpg: Progressive seq detected, leaving 3:2 TELECINE
> mode
> Warning! FPS changed 23.976 -> 29.970  (-5.994000) [4]
> 
> demux_mpg: 3:2 TELECINE detected, enabling inverse telecine
> fx. FPS changed to 23.976!
> 
> demux_mpg: Progressive seq detected, leaving 3:2 TELECINE
> mode
> Warning! FPS changed 23.976 -> 29.970  (-5.994000) [4]
> 
> demux_mpg: 3:2 TELECINE detected, enabling inverse telecine
> fx. FPS changed to 23.976!
> 
> Since it seems parts of the movie use 23fps and parts use
> 29fps, what is the best way to mencode this thing -ofps
> 23.976 or without.  Will mencoder do the right thing in
> this case?

It's gonna be really hard to get a good non-damaged encode with such a
bad master... Currently mplayer's handling of interlaced source
material and filter architecture isn't equipped to handle it. Are the
30fps parts clean progressive frames, or ugly-looking interlaced mess?
If it's clean, I'd just recommend -ofps 23.976 and letting it drop
some stuff. Otherwise it's going to be hard to clean it up right...

Rich