[MPlayer-users] 23.976 or 24fps on NTSC DVD's?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 10:14:35PM -0600, Duane Evenson wrote:
> Do NTSC DVD's store movies at 23.976 or 24fps?
> I've read and seen that mplayer will print "demux_mpg:  24fps 
> progressive NTSC content detected...",
> but then when encoding, I'm supposed to use "-ofps 23.976". I realize 
> we're talking about 1/10%, but what is correct?

24000/1001 is what's correct. the other numbers are both just
approximations with different precisions.

rich