[MPlayer-users] avi to vcd frame rate problems

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:04:24PM -0400, GD Lewis wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 18:55, emaillist+mpu at dogphilosophy.net wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Perhaps this ought to be a FAQ if it's not already?  (I don't 
> > recall seeing it...).  Perhaps in the 'encoding' section?
> > 
> > mencoder has a really simple and spiffy way of doing this:
> > 
> > mencoder -ofps 25.000 -oac copy -ovc copy -o new_frame_rate.avi 
> > old_framerate.avi
> > 
> > Then use new_frame_rate.avi as the input for generating the mpeg1 file.
> 
> Doesn't work for me.  I've tried it with many avi's and even though the
> resultant avi will play fine with mplayer or Xine, once converted to an
> mpeg, you end up with double speed video and normal audio.

Unfortunately -ofps will not work well with framecopy (-ovc copy). Try
reencoding at very high quality instead and see if that works...

Rich