[MEncoder-users] Status Line Incongruities

[James Hastings-Trew]

James Hastings-Trew wrote:
> ||This means that the video is encoding at a rate of 6.36 frames per 
> second. However, Mencoder's status line reports that it has processed 
> roughly 188000 frames, at a rate of 16 frames per second. This is 
> roughly 2.5 times the number of frames in the video, and roughly 2.5 
> times the actual frame rate it is encoding at.
Heh, well, I just realized from the numbers on mencoder's command line 
that it is counting the frames, and hence the reported frames per 
second, as if the input video was 60 fps. The source is from a hard 
telecined film rate DVD - so maybe it's counting the fields before the 
pullup filter recovers the progressive frames? A guess.. but the numbers 
work out... 24 x 2.5 = 60. The status line is still wrong, but this 
might be a clue as to why it is wrong.