[MPlayer-users] Variable FPS to Fixed FPS

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Saturday 21 June 2008 18:31:49 Valeriu Palos ha scritto:
> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 12:03 -0400, Charles philip Chan wrote:
> > Valeriu Palos <valeriu at palos.ro> writes:
> > 
> > > I have a WMV file with variable bitrate (mplayer -identify shows
> > > 1000.000 fps). How do I convert this file into a fixed FPS movie
> > 
> > ,----
> > | -ofps <fps>
> > `----
> Thanks (embarrassing)...
> 
> The thing was that I also tried to do it with mencoder -ofps (I'm
> actually building a conversion script), but I didn't realize that I was
> also using the -noskip option which ruined all things for me.
> 
> So this works just fine:
> 
> mencoder -nosound -ovc copy -ofps 25 -o outfile.avi infile.wmv
> 
> I managed to figure it out right before I got your answer.
> 
> Thanks a lot!

don't be so excited: skipping and duplicating frames generally
doesn't lead to good results