[MPlayer-users] more newbie questions

[Brian Craft]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:48:02PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> Well, actually the source material could be 24 fps movie, converted to
> 29.97 fps by so-called "telecine". Search the archives for details if
> you're curious.

Hm, weird. It is a film source. Shouldn't mplayer (90rc3) have identified it
as telecine and inverted it?

Is telecine the only algorithm used to convert film to 29.97 fps? Is it the
same as 3-2 pulldown?

b.c.