[mythtv-users] Myth Archive - ripping DVD silent films

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:49:10PM -0500, jedi wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:22:26AM -0700, Sam Logen wrote:
> > --- On Tue, 9/2/08, Sam Logen <starz909 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Sam Logen <starz909 at yahoo.com>
> > > Subject: Myth Archive - ripping DVD silent films
> > > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > > Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 1:19 PM
> > > Hi, I tried to archive a dvd of an old silent film, so I
> > > booted up mythtv and went to the archive menu.  I set the
> > > quality to lowest, since it was an old black & white,
> > > and the ripping finished successfully.  However, when I go
> > > back to Mythvideos to watch it, some parts of the film play
> > > back at twice the normal speed (both audio and video).  Why
> > > is this, and how can I fix it?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sam
> > 
> > Does nobody have a solution for this problem? Could it be that the
> > "mtd" is throwing out frames it thinks is bad, but is really just the
> > normal quality for silent-era films?
>
> Could it be perhaps... that you're the only guy interested in
> silent films. That seems to be the case (with me) when it comes to
> closed captions. Usually people give me this dumfounded look when I
> bring them up.

Silent films were *not* shot at anything resembling a standard frame
rate, and there's really no telling what a 'colorist' might have decided
to telecine them at, or burn them to DVD at.

You might try running command-line mplayer against the MPEGs and seeing
what fps it thinks is there... 

Cheers,
-- jra
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