[MEncoder-users] Inverse telecine? framerate from 120000/1001 to 24000/1001

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:08:13PM +0200, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
> Wednesday 23 August 2006 15:40, Rich Felker:
> > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 04:22:49PM -0700, RC wrote:
> > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:34:14 +0200
> > >
> > > Munzuk <munzuk at ono.com> wrote:
> > > > I just did an -ovc copy -oac copy with -ss and -endpos,
> > >
> > > Well, then, I'd say it looks like whoever captured/encoded it, has
> > > destroyed it in the process.
> >
> > No, -ovc copy will do a lot of damage. 
> 
> Oh my god, it does?

If you see any "skipping frame" messages then it has destroyed some of
the actual video. Even without those, timing information may be messed
up due to the fact that the input file is (potentially) vfr and the
output is cfr always.

> > You need to rip the actual 
> > original stream, 
> 
> How do you do that?

-dumpstream and/or dd.

Rich