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

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:46:25PM -0800, Phil Ehrens wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:21:25PM +0100, Gábor Farkas wrote:
> > > hi,
> > > 
> > > i am trying to encode something from an anime dvd.
> > 
> > > should i maybe try a different -ofps?
> > 
> > 24000/1001 is almost certainly right, but there are some rare cases
> > where anime also has 30fps content mixed in.. you'll have to watch to
> > see, but there's still really nothing good you can do since mencoder
> > does not support vfr (variable framerate) and most of the content will
> > be 24000/1001.
> 
> Boy, my mencoder must be magic. Somehow I can transcode a dvd that has
> varying frame rates to a constant frame rate .avi... and I don't even
> have to specify -vf pullup, it just does the right thing, dropping
> frames when necessary, or adding them as the case may be (depending
> on what -ofps I specify, of course).

pullup is not about getting the correct number of frames, but
reversing hard-telecine (where the pairing of fields in the dvd mpeg
don't match actual frames).

rich