[MEncoder-users] Newbie struggling with pullup

[Laine Lee]

On 2/28/08 10:51 PM, "Scott Larson" <scowl at pacifier.com> wrote:

> If none of the good suggestions work out for you, there's still one more
> method I've found that works with 720p material, especially stuff that
> has crazy 2:2:3:3 combinations or is causing distracting interlaced
> frames to slip through. I've found that for some reason "detc=2" (with
> softskip) sometimes does a great job of locking onto the pattern of
> duplicates. It doesn't actually remove the duplicated frames so you'll
> see "skipping frame" messages continuously during the encode but these
> are the frames that should be skipped. You can pipe stderr to /dev/null
> if the messages are bothersome.
> 
> I've even used this on material that had drop outs and other corruption
> that broke every other method I use and somehow old detc was able to get
> back on the pattern in less than a second. Of course I don't know why
> this works because detc wasn't designed for this purpose so I can only
> shrug and tell you to try it if nothing else works.

Thanks. I've gotten mixed results when I've used your suggestion to convert
short clips that I've extracted from my larger video files. I've been
extracting clips with the dd command. Is that adequate, or should I be using
something else, such as mpgtx? Thanks again.

-- 
Laine Lee