[MPlayer-users] about film2pal telecine

[Giacomo Comes]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 05:19:32PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:38:07 -0400
> Giacomo Comes <comes at naic.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to identify a film2pal telecined mpeg? 
> 
> Compare the number of frames there should be, with the number of frames
> actually output.  For instance, compare the number of frames in the last
> status line of mplayer, with the number of lines in md5sums.

Found a way without using md5sums, the command:

mplayer -nocache in.mpg -vo null -nosound -benchmark

will show in the status line something like:
V: 144.9 3619/3472  0%  0%  0.0% 0 0 0%

the ratio 3619/3472 can be used for PAL telecine detection.

Giacomo