[MEncoder-users] h.264 stream read with too high frame rate?

belcampo belcampo at zonnet.nl
Mon Oct 5 19:07:41 CEST 2009


L Lee wrote:
> On 10/3/09 6:59 PM, "Mikhail Ramendik" <mr at ramendik.ru> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to play or reencode an h/264 stream sample, saved straight
>> from DVB (BBC HD). It has PAFF (an earlier mplayer reported "PAFF not
>> supported").
>>
>> The video is about two times slower than the sound. In mplayer I
>> attributed this to not enough CPU power. However, the same happens in
>> the resulting file after a non-realtime encoding with mencoder.
>>
>> After reading up on PPAF, I suspect mplayer/mencoder is reading fields
>> as frames.
>>
>> Is there a way to fix this? Ideally, just drop one of the fields when
>> they are encoded separately, as I am scaling down to a lower size
>> anyway.
> 
> I've never had much success converting HD unless I've used some sort of
> pullup strategy, but I don't have a great variety of ways to import, so I
> don't have any idea whether I can help you.
BBC HD is 25fps so doesn't need any of those strategies.
  I have a Hauppauge HD-PVR, and
> this weekend I tried some of my pullup methods on the 1920X1080 output from
> that. But it's a little hard to insure that I have a clean source, and if
> the source isn't fairly clean, I can't tell what method to use on it. But
> when the source is clean and the method is correct, I can't imagine any
> conversion tool yielding better results than those I get with MEncoder. I
> used to use the pullup filter, but lately have had more success with
> filmdint. Have you tried anything like that? Maybe you could make an excerpt
> of your source available, say in the neighborhood of 100 megabytes.
> 
> Laine Lee
> 
> 
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