title Fixing absurdly-high mplayer fps (frames per second) problem
user strick
ip 75.144.20.97
vol 1
lock ********

Sometimes mplayer thinks flash .flv videos
have way too many frames per seconds, like 1000,
so it plays them at breakneck speed.

This script tries to correct for that:


/b   /usr/local/bin/identify-fps
/box(
/pre(
#!/bin/sh

mplayer 2>/dev/null  -vo none -ao none  -identify  "$@" | awk -F= '/^ID_VIDEO_FPS/ { r=$2; if (r>39) print 10; else print r; }'
/pre)
/box)

Usage:

/b mplayer -fps `identify-fps myvideo.flv`  ...other-options... myvideo.flv

Tweaking:  The script aboves says if FPS is greater than 39, use 10 instead.
That seems to work OK for me.  You can adjust the con