[MEncoder-users] Skipping frame! and duplicate frame(s)! problems

[RC]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 23:09:56 -0400
Jonathan <jonathan at kc8onw.net> wrote:

> In the areas where this happens the output is horribly 
> interlaced/telecined 

I encode everything with (at least) "-vf ivtc=1,pp=lb,softskip".  That
would probably help.  There are pros/cons to both ivtc and pullup.
Unless it gives me mismatched fields on a particular source, I prefer
ivtc.

> and farther into the source it starts skipping 
> frames every 5-10 frames and went on doing so for over 500 frames
> before I killed the encode.

Well, if you really want to preserve every frame, you can use -ofps
30000/1001, though you'll get tons of duplicate frames (which aren't
exactly a bad thing), and possibly uneven motion during panning scenes
and the like.

> Is that hardcoded into the video stream or is it just something
> mencoder figures out?

I don't know what you are trying to ask.