[MEncoder-users] HDTV encoding, another question

[David Shay]

On 4/12/05, Trent Piepho <xyzzy at speakeasy.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, RC wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:58:24 -0500
> > David Shay <davideshay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  If I exclude "-fps
> > > 30000/1001" from the mencoder command line (when using lavc and
> > > vcodec=mpeg2video), I get an error:
> > >
> > > MPEG1/2 doesn't support 2997/50 fps
> > >
> > You can't just leave "-ofps" off, because the number gets rounded off.
> 
> There really is no reason for this to happen, even though mplayer uses a float
> to store the framerate.

Agreed.  But even if I do specify and use within spec MPEG2 at
30000/1001fps, is there a way to make a better conversion from the
60000/1001fps HDTV content.  Right now it skips every other frame and
the result is somewhat jerky.  Any filter or other way to do this?