[MPlayer-users] Odd messages from softpulldown

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu Nov 20 00:12:14 CET 2003


On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:46:27AM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I am getting some strange messages from using mencoder
> -ofps 23.976 -vf softpulldown,ivtc=1
> I am not sure whether they're harmful but here they are in
> case it helps debugging.
> 
> Pos:2330.6s  57433f (86%)  20fps Trem:   7min 519mb
> A-V:0.021 [1158:448]
> 1 duplicate frame(s)!
> Pos:2330.8s  57437f (86%)  20fps Trem:   7min 519mb
> A-V:0.038 [1158:448]
> 1 duplicate frame(s)!
> Pos:2331.3s  57448f (86%)  20fps Trem:   7min 519mb
> A-V:0.084 [1159:448]
> Skipping frame!
> softpulldown: Unexpected field flags: state=0
> top_field_first=0 repeat_first_field=0
> Pos:2331.7s  57458f (86%)  20fps Trem:   7min 519mb
> A-V:0.084 [1159:448]
> Skipping frame!
> softpulldown: Unexpected field flags: state=1
> top_field_first=1 repeat_first_field=0
> Pos:2332.4s  57478f (86%)  20fps Trem:   7min 519mb
> A-V:0.084 [1160:448]
> Skipping frame!
> softpulldown: Unexpected field flags: state=1
> top_field_first=1 repeat_first_field=0
> Pos:2333.2s  57498f (86%)  20fps Trem:   7min 519mb
> A-V:0.084 [1162:448]
> Skipping frame!
> softpulldown: Unexpected field flags: state=1
> top_field_first=1 repeat_first_field=0
> Pos:2334.9s  57544f (86%)  20fps Trem:   7min 520mb
> A-V:0.024 [1163:448]
> 1 duplicate frame(s)!
> Pos:2344.6s  57777f (86%)  20fps Trem:   7min 527mb
> A-V:0.030 [1188:448]
> 1 duplicate frame(s)!
> 
> This is while encoding a DVD of television episodes.

Are you sure there's any reason to use vf_softpulldown? TV content is
usually just interlaced to begin with (not telecined at all!) or
hard-telecined.

Rich



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