[MEncoder-users] What is wrong with WMV?

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:04:41PM +0200, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:23:50 -0700, RC wrote:
> > > Why does it only happen with WMV files?
> > WMV is actually VFR, so the timing is very tricky to convert.  If you
> > don't specify an -ofps value, it just uses 1000fps.
> 
> Right, -identify always reports 1000 fps. :-P I've noticed that as
> well. OTOH, mplayer plays those WMVs at the correct speed.

Hardly OTOH. "1000" here just means 1000 time units per second, not
actually frames. The terminology MPlayer is displaying in its messages
is just incorrect.

Rich