[MPlayer-users] Problems with NTSC - summary

[Corey Hickey]

Juergen Hammelmann wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hi, these NTSC movies are in encoded with 23.976 frames per second!!!
> Because for television they have a pulldown mode, so the movies are shown with 
> 29.97 frames/sec on tv: first frame is shown twice, then second frame is 
> shown once, the third frame is shown twice again, and so on...
> so you get from 24 frames in real from cinema movies to the tv standard with 
> 60 frames per second!
> 
> Ciao, Jürgen 

Yes, except it's a little more complicated than that... :)

The best explanation I've found so far is at:
http://www.divx.com/support/guides/guide.php?gid=11

-Corey