[MPlayer-users] Scaling and expanding when encoding tv

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:36:52PM -0800, Barton Bosch wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> <snip>
> >>Is this caused by the 29.97 frame rate?  How do you all deal with 
> >>this?  Would it be better to set the tv card's capture rate to 25 or 
> >>27 in the -tv options?  To set the fps to 25 or 27 in -lacvopts?  Or 
> >>maybe dealing with it on playback with the general mplayer -fps option?
> >
> >
> >Never set the framerate to anything other than the actual correct
> >framerate, in this case 30000/1001 aka 29.97. Anything else will give
> >horrible results.
> 
> Ok, so is it necessary to pass the frame rate to the tuner card or 
> mencoder to get optimal results?  I've noticed that in the intial 
> output, mencoder reports the frame rate as 29 fps and that in the 
> status line (after it settles out) it reads 30 fps.

This is NOT the framerate of the movie, it's the rate you're encoding
at, i.e. it's measuring encoding performance. And it's rounded to the
nearest whole number anyway..

Rich