[Mplayer-dvb] How to best play videos with 24fps

[Juri Haberland]

Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> the point of my question is more, what TV norm is more close to 24 fps?
>> Is it PAL with 25fps or NTSC with 29.97fps? From the numbers I would
>> assume PAL is the way to go...
> 
> you could either play it a bit faster (-speed 25:24) in PAL, or at normal
> speed at ntsc (then dvb will do inverse telecine -> duplicating every 4nd
> frame/field).

So, did I get this right:
A video with 24fps should always be played as a NTSC video - if possible.

Does something like 'vop=lavc:-1:29.970' break the playback?

Cheers,
Juri