[MPlayer-users] Who converts movie frame rate to video frame rate?

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Bryan Henderson <giraffedata at gmail.com> wrote:
> In stepping through a DVD movie frame by frame, I noticed there were
> 24 frames in a second.  I always thought part of "DVD authoring" was
> converting that to television frame rate (30).
"Television frame rate", aka NTSC, is 29.97, or more precisely, 30000/1001.

> Messages mention both a frame rate of 29.97 fps and "24000/1001fps
> progressive NTSC content."  What does that mean?
The content is progressive NTSC FILM (23.976 or more precisely
24000/1001) and is telecined to 29.97fps NTSC.

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