[MPlayer-users] Telecined video questions

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:31:06AM +0100, Vladimir Niksic wrote:
> All the sites I've been to show how to use inverse telecine on NTSC 
> material.
> 
> I've recorded an mpeg2 stream from a DVB, a cartoon, which is telecined, 
> and it's in PAL. What is the best way to inverse telecine it? I've tried 
> using filmdint, pullup, but I get a lot of duplicate frames. I've tried 
> using -ofps 24 (since this is a cartoon it originally has 24 frames per 
> second, or am I wrong?).
> 
> What is the best way to losslessly get non-interlaced material with 
> mencoder?

It's hard to know what the hell was done to it, if it's PAL and
telecined. Probably a bad NTSC->PAL conversion post-telecine that will
be almost impossible to repair. You'd be better off downloading the
original NTSC version.

Rich