[MEncoder-users] Choppy video when changing framerate

[Reimar Doeffinger]

Hello,
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:08:28AM -0700, Phil Ehrens wrote:
> Reimar Doeffinger wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:56:07PM -0700, RC wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:37:09 +0200
> > > Manuel Carro <mcarro at fi.upm.es> wrote:
> > > > does mencoder provide any way to sort of interpolate frames around the
> > > > missing ones?
> > > 
> > > None at all.  
> > 
> > Well, you could see -vf hqdn3d as a very low-level way of doing this...
> 
> Hmm... That's stretching things a bit. It wouldn't have any effect
> on his particular problem. It is a huge win with animated content
> in most cases, but it doesn't reduce jumpiness caused by skipped
> frames.

Not having it actually tested myself I shouldn't shout too loud, but it
does "smear" the pictures and generate a motion-blur like effect which
should make the frame transitions less hard. You should probably place
it before softskip though.

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger