[MPlayer-dev-eng] Custom soft-telecine patterns

[Nico Sabbi]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

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>>it seems that using pattern a) it's possible to telecine 25 fps 
>>progressive video to 30 fps,
>>and with pattern b) 25fps -> 29.97
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>Stupid goal. 25fps progressive video was almost ALWAYS sped-up from
>24fps film to make a PAL DVD. The solution is to slow it back down and
>fix the audio at the same time. MEncoder can finally do this now, with
>-speed. Use -speed 24000/25025 to convert PAL to NTSC FILM rates, etc.
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>>It sounds convincing. Is it really? :)
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>>If it's so I can extend the mpeg muxer to accept a custom telecine 
>>pattern (keeping
>>predefined ones such as 3:2 , a) and b)   ).
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>>Opinions are welcome.
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>Defining a pattern is stupid, IMO. On the other hand, supporting
>arbitrary input framerates to telecine is not a bad idea. But your
>muxer should generate the natural pattern itself (there's a way to do
>it without following any "pattern", just comparing timestamps and
>setting the flags accordingly) rather than having users specify stupid
>patterns to it. :)
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>Rich
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it sounds more reasonable. As usual you have better solutions :)