[MPlayer-users] converting 25 fps to 24 fps

[Phil Rhodes]

> How do you come to this conclusion?

Only because it is certainly current practice to pitch correct PAL DVDs; 
that's how current releases are invariably done and it has been this way 
since at least the mid-90s.

Are your uncorrected discs from what might be called the early days of DVD? 
At that point, people were making DVDs from Betacam SP tapes, which were 
generally transferred from internegatives or even show prints of films, and 
commonly have the issue we're discussing. More recent DVD releases, even of 
older films, tend to be retransferred from a film element, possibly to an HD 
master, or the DVDs are derived from digital intermediate data - these will 
invariably have the audio correction done. The old SP masters, which were 
intended for making VHS tapes, never made very good DVDs anyway, and now are 
used only for the lowest of low-rent stuff. I'm talking about mainstream 
live-action films here; I don't know what the guys in Japan get up to with 
anime releases. Presuming they master the animation at 24p (given that it's 
now mainly done digitally and not by shooting cels) the same considerations 
apply. It's a sad fact that a lot of western anime releases are very budget, 
especially in 25-frame markets which are presumably even smaller than the 
NTSC ones.

This isn't a problem that only hits "small" films, either - notoriously, 
Blade Runner didn't get a fresh transfer until quite recently, because of 
disagreement over rights issues.

Yes, I completely understand that the supplementary tracks don't get 
corrected.

P