[mythtv-users] Recording Extra frames

[Brian Foddy]

On Saturday 14 February 2004 06:25 pm, steve at nexusuk.org wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Brian Foddy wrote:
> > For example, recording a 30 minute show,
> > the OSD will show almost 36 minutes of showtime.
>
> A 30 minute show being extended to 36 minutes is consistent with recording
> at NTSC frame rate (30fps) but playing back at PAL frame rate (25fps):
>     30fps * 30 minutes / 25fps = 36 minutes
>
> Maybe the frame rate is being stored wrongly in the video file - try
> running the video through mplayer and seeing what it says the frame rate
> is.

I think you're on the right track, output from mplayer is:
Playing foo.mpg
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  25.00 fps  6000.0 kbps (750.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================

So is this a config error somewhere in my setup, or a program bug?

Brian