[MPlayer-users] frame interpolation

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:09:03PM -0700, Peter Kryszkiewicz wrote:
> 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?

What will your output format/codec be? My recommendation would be to
keep the original at 12fps or 24fps (or 24000/1001 fps). If you need
to output to vcd or dvd you can then soft-telecine it to 30000/1001
fps.

Rich