NTSC DVD played at 50Hz rather than 60Hz (1 Viewer)

[richardb70]

Hi,

First post, been using MediaPortal for a while now and it's great(!). However, I'm having a bit of trouble with some fitness DVDs that my wife uses. I have automatic refresh rates enabled - and working correctly - by the way. My TV is old, no 24Hz option so everything gets translated to either 50 or 60Hz.

Analysing this particular DVD with Media Info reports that some of the items (menus, warnings etc) are at 24fps, but the main content is 30fps. If I don't tick the box under MePo's DVD config to analyse using Media Info, the MePo logs show that it can't determine the fps of the DVD so leaves it at the current, default setting (50Hz). If I tick the box, I can see that Media Info is used, but it's the first item that's analysed (rather than the main content), which is a 24fps segment, and on my old TV I have 24fps -> 50Hz so again, nothing is changed.

Am I missing an easy config to switch rates dynamically within a DVD viewing? Thanks in advance!

 

[tourettes]

As far as I know there is no support for the multi fps content and dynamic refresh rate changes in current mp.

 

[richardb70]

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

I was wondering - as a suggestion - when Media Info is used, and returns back multiple items of information, would it be possible to analyse the returned time period information to try to determine "actual" video rather than menus, warnings etc? If I open up Media Info myself, and drag the parent VIDEO_TS folder into it, I get an array of eight or nine reports, each detailing a specific item. I can tell which refer to the main content as the runtime field shows > 5 mins.

Another possibility - AnyDVD reports that the disk is classified as "NTSC" in its "settings". I don't know how it's analysing the DVD to get this, but if it's easy to determine, can we assume that NTSC content on a DVD is 30fps?

Thanks,
Richard