[MPlayer-users] NTSC content FPS change causes dvd playback to halt

[khayos]

Gangs of New York.

Yeah, mplayer certainly tried to handle it.  When it got to the fps
rate change it tried.... sat there with a black playback screen for a
second and a bit, and then it disappeared.


On 9/26/06, Steve Dibb <steve at wonkabar.org> wrote:
> khayos wrote:
> > So, I'm about 5/6 of may way through a movie and suddenly everything
> > disappears.  I've determined that it always happens at precisely the
> > same moment in the playback, so I jumped immediately there to get
> > commandline output, which is below.  Has anyone seen this before?
> > Better yet, has anyone seen it -and- fixed it?  :)
> <snip>
> > A:4844.8 V:4844.8 A-V:  0.029 ct:  0.003  10/  8 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
> > demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching
> > framerate.
> > A:5111.4 V:5111.9 A-V: -0.487 ct:  0.142 268/265 35% 34%  3.3% 0 0
> > demux_mpg: 30000/1001fps NTSC content detected, switching framerate.
> > Warning! FPS changed 23.976 -> 29.970  (-5.994005) [4]    3.3% 0 0
> > A:5111.4 V:5114.3 A-V: -2.890 ct: -0.020 337/312 33% 29%  1.9% 0 0
> > alsa-uninit: pcm closed
> >
> > Exiting... (End of file)
>
> Are you talking about the FPS changing?  If so, welcome to the wonderful
> world of variable framerate.  A lot of DVDs are like that (especially TV
> shows on DVD).
>
> MPlayer can handle the transition just fine, though I don't know why
> it's flat out stopping.
>
> What's the DVD?
>
> Steve
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