[MEncoder-users] anime,pullup,skipped/duplicated frames

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 29 November 2005 at 23:21, Gábor Farkas wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i am trying to encode something from an anime dvd.
> 
> first i am trying to find a way to get rid of the telecine,
> 
> -vf pullup works fine,
> when i play the video with "mplayer -vf pullup",
> i can see that every fourth frame is duplicated (so it was like ABCDD 
> ABCDD ABCDD ).
> 
> i tried something like this:
> 
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts turbo arusu-intro.vob -ofps 
> 24000/1001 -vf pullup,softskip -o arusu.avi

You are, I hope, going to use more elaborate -lavcopts when doing final
encoding, aren't you?

> what i get at the end looks ok, but while encoding i'm getting 
> frame_skipped and frame_duplicated messages.
> 
> for 90seconds of anime, i got 75skips and 22 duplicated frames (full 
> gzipped mencoder log attached).
> isn't that too much?

No, it's quite normal. You may try different pullup modes though to see
if you get better results, i.e. -vf pullup=::::-1 (less strict breaks) or
-vf pullup=:::::1 (use chroma plane). See man mplayer.

> should i maybe try a different -ofps?

Assuming this reall is telecine (and it appears so), definitely NOT.

Regards,
R.

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