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maybe -ofps 23.976 (at encoding) help? (mplayer autodetects it after a few seconds but mencoder can't)

why is that? Whatever. I now just look for TELECINE messages in stdout of mplayer...

btw you don't need to mess w/ loopdev, -dvd-device something.iso is just fine

makes things easier... cool. thx, that was a fast response. I will see the result tomorrow morning... Andres PS: small adjustments #!/usr/bin/python # # mencoder dvd backup script # # Andres Meyer, 2003 import os import re import sys import getopt usage = "enc.py {{-i | --iso} movie.iso | {-d | --dvd} /dev/dvd} [{-o | - --output} movie.avi] [{-l | --language} en] [-p | --pretend] [-t | - --telecine]\n" try: opts, tmp = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "i:o:l:d:pt", ["iso=", "output=", "language=","dvd=", "pretend", "telecine"]) except getopt.GetoptError: print usage sys.exit(2) source = None target = None lang = "en,de,fr" pretend = None telecine = None for o, a in opts: if o in ("-i", "--iso"): if target == None: path, ext = os.path.splitext( a) target = "%s.avi" % path source = a if o in ("-d", "--dvd"): source = a if o in ("-o", "--output"): target = a if o in ("-l", "--lang"): lang = a if o in ("-p", "--pretend"): pretend = 1 if o in ("-t", "--telecine"): telecine = 1 if source == None: print usage sys.exit(2) print "source: %s, target: %s, lang: %s\n" % (source, target, lang) cx = 10000 cy = 10000 cw = 0 ch = 0 trackNum = 1 cropNum = None dvdInfo = "" while cropNum == None: for minute in range( 20, 30): cmd = "mplayer -vo null -dvd %s -dvd-device \"%s\" -vop cropdetect -ss 00:%s:00 -frames 12" % (trackNum, source, minute) print "cmd :%s" % cmd dvdInfo = os.popen( cmd).read() cropNum = re.compile( r".*\(-vop crop=(.*):(.*):(.*):(.*)\).*").search( dvdInfo) print "*************************************************\n" print dvdInfo if cropNum == None: trackNum = trackNum + 1 if trackNum > 9: sys.exit("************ error *************\n") break x = int( cropNum.group(3)) y = int( cropNum.group(4)) w = int( cropNum.group(1)) h = int( cropNum.group(2)) cx = min( cx, x) cy = min( cy, y) cw = max( cw, w) ch = max( ch, h) if re.compile( r".*3:2 TELECINE.*").search( dvdInfo) != None: telecine = 1 print "**********" print "Crop=(%s:%s:%s:%s)" % (cw, ch, cx, cy) resMatch = re.compile( r".*Movie-Aspect is (.*):1.*").search( dvdInfo) aspect = float( resMatch.group(1)) print "Aspect=%s" % aspect resMatch = re.compile( r".*VIDEO: MPEG2 (.*)x(.*) \(aspect.*\) (.*) fps .*").search( dvdInfo) resX = int( resMatch.group(1)) resY = int( resMatch.group(2)) fps = float( resMatch.group(3)) print "fps from dvd = %s\n" % fps if telecine != None: print "fps override = 23.976\n" ofps = "-ofps 23.976" else: ofps = " " newAspect = (float(cw) / float(resX))/(float(ch) / float(resY)) * aspect cmd = "nice -18 mencoder -dvd %s -dvd-device \"%s\" %s -ovc lavc -vop crop=%s:%s:%s:%s -alang %s -oac copy -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:aspect=%s:vhq:v4mv:vbitrate=2000" % (trackNum, source, ofps, cw, ch, cx, cy, lang, newAspect) cmd1 = "%s:vpass=1 -o /dev/null" % cmd cmd2 = "%s:vpass=2 -o \"%s\"" % (cmd, target) print print print "%s; %s" % (cmd1, cmd2) if pretend == None: os.popen( cmd1).read() os.popen( cmd2).read() -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+i3+ksOmBKjmDDSMRAvYOAJ4sfKxmcTFLd6iagUvhwVAiog2kqgCfTED0 5wsapvMU7gRi+5rn358e5lo= =H+ER -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----