[MEncoder-users] Newbie struggling with pullup

[Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux)]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008 19:29, Laine Lee wrote:
> I'm still trying to convert my telecined video source (1280X720, 60 fps) to
> 16X9 DVD (720X480, 30000/1001). I'm assuming I've correctly identified the
> source as telecined, because the frame rate is 60 fps (or thereabouts, if I
> may be allowed to say so) and when I pause it and advance 1 frame at a time
> as suggested in the mplayer documentation, I generally see the same frame
> until the 3rd press of the "." key and then the same frame again until the
> second press of the key, and so on.

are you sure you're dealing with telecined content and not just interlaced? if 
it's interlaced, you can deinterlace it with yadif or pp=lb and reduce its 
frame rate to 29.97 fps using the framestep filter. Your command line could 
look like

-vf yadif=0,framestep=2,softskip -fps 60000/1001 -ofps 30000/1001

IIRC pullup can only handle frame rates of 24000/1001 and 30000/1001

>
> However, quite frequently, and usually several times in succession, this
> sequence gets interrupted, and I might only have to hit "." 2 times to get
> to the next varying frame when I expected to press it 3 times.
>
> Is this normal for telecined video, or is my source corrupt?
>
> When I add "pullup,softskip" to my filter list when converting, I still
> appear to get duplicate frames in the output much, much more frequently
> than is reported during processing. I have had my best results so far by
> using (typically) "pullup=8:8:8:8:-1:1", but I still get far too many
> unreported dups.
>
> What am I failing to do pullup-wise that might let me get just unique
> frames in the output, if that's possible? Thanks.

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