[MPlayer-users] Wrong framerate

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:54:16PM +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> I downloaded this video from Youtube:
> 
> clive -f mp4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtGUcTZkbxU
> 
> When I play it with Mplayer I see this in the terminal output:
> 
> Playing LetItBeLineDanceDanceTeach.mp4.
> libavformat file format detected.
> [lavf] stream 0: video (h264), -vid 0
> [lavf] stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang und
> VIDEO:  [H264]  640x360  24bpp  59.750 fps  463.9 kbps (56.6 kbyte/s)

There is a good reason why we ask for full MPlayer output.
The most likely reason for this problem is that you are using
an outdated MPlayer version.

> But VLC says that the video framerate is 29.968702.

My MPlayer version says
VIDEO:  [H264]  640x360  24bpp  29.917 fps  463.9 kbps (56.6 kbyte/s)
however downloading the full file takes too long.