[MPlayer-users] soft telecine for DVDs: can't this be applied(in principle) to framerates other than 24 or 24000/1001?

[Nico Sabbi]

Ivan Middleton wrote:

> I've noticed and made use of the "telecine" option for -mpegopts quite
> often, and I notice there's also now a "film2pal" option which does
> something similar for PAL format.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone thinks it's useful to implement more general
> pulldown patterns.  If I'm not mistaken, the mpeg2 flags would seem to
> allow you to increase effective framerate by up to 50% (by repeating a
> field from each frame); and thus for instance one could implement a
> soft telecine pulldown for NTSC dvds for framerates as low as
> 20000/1001.
>
> I would potentially find this useful in two situations:
> (1) Converting low-framerate video to dvd, e.g. from web videos or slides
> (2) Converting PAL (25 fps) to NTSC

yes. Patch welcome or have patience :)