Index: DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1,v retrieving revision 1.969 diff -u -r1.969 mplayer.1 --- DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 14 May 2005 13:13:58 -0000 1.969 +++ DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 16 May 2005 05:33:34 -0000 @@ -8181,9 +8181,9 @@ .TP .B telecine Enables soft telecine mode: the muxer will trick the video stream so as -to make it look like encoded at 29.97 or 30 fps; it only works with MPEG-2 +to make it look like encoded at 30000/1001 or 30 fps; it only works with MPEG-2 video when the output framerate, eventually converted with \-ofps, is either -23.976 or 24 fps. +24000/1001 or 24 fps. Any other framerate is incompatible with this option. . . Index: DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml,v retrieving revision 1.66 diff -u -r1.66 mencoder.xml --- DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml 15 May 2005 21:59:39 -0000 1.66 +++ DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml 16 May 2005 05:33:39 -0000 @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ NTSC Video: Recorded with an - NTSC video camera at 59.94 fields per second, or 60 fields per + NTSC video camera at 60000/1001 fields per second, or 60 fields per second in the pre-color era. Otherwise similar to PAL. @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ Computer Graphics (CG): Can be - any framerate, but some are more common than others; 23 and + any framerate, but some are more common than others; 24 and 30 frames per second are typical for NTSC, and 25fps is typical for PAL. @@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ shown alternately for the duration of 3 fields or 2 fields. This gives a fieldrate 2.5 times the original framerate. The result is also slowed down very slightly from 60 fields per - second to 59.94 fields per second to maintain NTSC fieldrate. + second to 60000/1001 fields per second to maintain NTSC fieldrate. NTSC 2:2 pulldown: Used for @@ -692,29 +692,29 @@ NTSC regions: If MPlayer prints that the framerate - has changed to 23.976 when watching your movie, and never changes - back, it is almost certainly 24fps content that has been + has changed to 24000/1001 when watching your movie, and never changes + back, it is almost certainly progressive content that has been "soft telecined". If MPlayer shows the framerate - switching back and forth between 23.976 and 29.97, and you see + switching back and forth between 24000/1001 and 30000/1001, and you see "combing" at times, then there are several possibilities. - The 23.976 fps segments are almost certainly 24fps progressive - content, "soft telecined", but the 29.97 fps parts could be - either hard-telecined 24fps content or NTSC video content. + The 24000/1001 fps segments are almost certainly progressive + content, "soft telecined", but the 30000/1001 fps parts could be + either hard-telecined 24000/1001 fps content or 60000/1001 fields per second NTSC video. Use the same guidelines as the following two cases to determine which. If MPlayer never shows the framerate changing, and every single frame with motion appears combed, your - movie is NTSC video at 59.94 fields per second. + movie is NTSC video at 60000/1001 fields per second. If MPlayer never shows the framerate changing, and two frames out of every five appear combed, your - movie is "hard telecined" 24fps content. + movie is "hard telecined" 24000/1001fps content. @@ -1610,8 +1610,8 @@ deinterlace or not. While deinterlacing will make your movie usable on progressive scan displays such a computer monitors and projectors, it comes - at a cost: The fieldrate of 50 or 59.94 fields per second - is halved to 25 or 29.97 frames per second, and roughly half of + at a cost: The fieldrate of 50 or 60000/1001 fields per second + is halved to 25 or 30000/1001 frames per second, and roughly half of the information in your movie will be lost during scenes with significant motion. @@ -1622,7 +1622,7 @@ You can always deinterlace the movie at playback time when displaying it on progressive scan devices, and future players will be able to deinterlace to full fieldrate, interpolating 50 or - 59.94 entire frames per second from the interlaced video. + 60000/1001 entire frames per second from the interlaced video.