[MEncoder-users] Mencoder soft telecine broken; fix included

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:22:24AM -0400, Nicolas Hesler wrote:
> My source is a hard 24 FPS (not 24000/1001).  I've tried every 
> combination of using mpegopts "telecine" "tele_src:tele_dest" with -fps, 
> without -fps, with -ofps and without -ofps.   with the same result, 
> frame skipping.  Is there something else I'm doing wrong?  Like I 
> mentioned, the release version of Mencoder doesn't have this behavior.  
> I want my 24 fps video to be converted to 24000/1001 with soft-telecine 
> for DVD.   I'm used to see frame skipping now and then, but every 10 or 
> 20 frames seems strange.

Then you need to use -speed 1000/1001 to convert the 24 fps to
24000/1001 fps. You probably also need -srate 44100 or 48000 to get
the audio back to a reasonable samplerate so it can be encoded.

Rich