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

[Phil Ehrens]

Rich Felker wrote:
> 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).

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that they were the same thing, just
that the right thing seemed to be getting done.