[MEncoder-users] Videos with fps 1000.000

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:55:30AM +0100, Dieter wrote:
> > Your output file is WMV!!!! WMV does not have a framerate. The 1000 is
> > just a fake framerate reported by MPlayer.
> 
> Okay, I'll bite.  How do you know how to playback a video with no framerate?

The correct way: each frame has a timestamp in terms of some time
unit. For crappy formats like WMV, the time unit is fixed at 1/1000
sec. (Thus the fake 1000 fps 'framerate' mplayer shows.) For good
formats, the time unit is specified by the file and adapted to the
content.

Rich