[MPlayer-users] NTSC content FPS change causes dvd playback to halt

[Steve Dibb]

khayos wrote:
> So, I'm about 5/6 of may way through a movie and suddenly everything
> disappears.  I've determined that it always happens at precisely the
> same moment in the playback, so I jumped immediately there to get
> commandline output, which is below.  Has anyone seen this before?
> Better yet, has anyone seen it -and- fixed it?  :)
<snip>
> A:4844.8 V:4844.8 A-V:  0.029 ct:  0.003  10/  8 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
> demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching 
> framerate.
> A:5111.4 V:5111.9 A-V: -0.487 ct:  0.142 268/265 35% 34%  3.3% 0 0
> demux_mpg: 30000/1001fps NTSC content detected, switching framerate.
> Warning! FPS changed 23.976 -> 29.970  (-5.994005) [4]    3.3% 0 0
> A:5111.4 V:5114.3 A-V: -2.890 ct: -0.020 337/312 33% 29%  1.9% 0 0
> alsa-uninit: pcm closed
>
> Exiting... (End of file)

Are you talking about the FPS changing?  If so, welcome to the wonderful 
world of variable framerate.  A lot of DVDs are like that (especially TV 
shows on DVD).

MPlayer can handle the transition just fine, though I don't know why 
it's flat out stopping.

What's the DVD?

Steve