[MPlayer-users] frame interpolation

[Peter Kryszkiewicz]

I got a rude shock the other day when I discovered my DVcam records at 
only 12fps in .asf format.  I needed to dump each frame to image files 
in order to use them in an animation that will eventually get written to 
DVD at NTSC framerate.

My question is - If you have a certain number of stills dumped from a 
12fps video, what is the best approach to increase the actual number of 
image frames in a subdirectory so that they can be inserted into an 
animation that plays at 29.97 fps?

1. Use an image manipulation program like Gimp or Image Magick to 
interpolate between dumped frames to generate additional frames?
2. Use MPlayer to somehow dump more physical frames to match the higher 
frame rate I want, even though the source does not contain that many  
frames?

If I specify a different frame rate in MPlayer I just get a different 
play speed but no change in the number of frames dumped to stills.