[MPlayer-users] dvd - mplayer plays fine but mencoder creates choppy video

[Washington Carvalho Jr]

On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 18:58, Corey Hickey wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Washington Carvalho Jr wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi, I wonder if someone can help me. I've been trying to correct this
> > problem for over a week....
> > I finally got a dvd-drive and it works fine with mplayer. Video quality
> > is great (specially with all great pp options, etc...):
> > 
> > mplayer -dvd 1  --> works fine
> > 
> > But when I try to encode with mencoder, I get choppy video, regardless
> > of the codec used (I tried copy, lavc with mpeg4....). Even this doesn't
> > work:
> > 
> > mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc copy
> > mplayer test.avi --> I get choppy video 
> > 
> > First I tought it could be related to the dvd-drive, but I made an image
> > of the dvd:
> > cp /dev/hdc /somewhere/image
> > If I play from the hard-drive it works fine, just like when I play from
> > the drive:
> > mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /somewhere/image -->ok
> > But even if I just try to copy the stream I get choppy video again.
> > mencoder -dvd 1 -dvd-device /somewhere/image -ovc copy -oac copy
> > -->choppy
> > I use  MPlayer v0.90rc4 (compiled from source) on an athlon 1.2GHz with
> > 256MB ddr (sounds fast enough, I think).
> > This problem seems to occur only when the mencoder input is a dvd, since
> > I've been converting (recoding) some old video files (even mpeg) to divx
> > using lavc with good results.I also never have problems playing divx
> > files with mplayer(even very large vbitrates)
> > 
> > Thanks a lot
> > Washington 
> > 
> 
> You need to add -ofps 23.976 to your command line. You'll be quite happy
> with the results then. :)
> 
> -Corey
> 
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So it was telecine after all....

Thanks a lot. It looks great now! :-))))))))))