[vdr] Frames per second PAL vs. NTSC

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 05.01.2009 13:31, Artur Skawina wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> Detecting the frame rate is done by looking at the PTS values, so
>> it is independent of the actual broadcast system.
>>
>> Using this code for converting frame numbers into hh:mm:ss.ff...
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> #include <math.h>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>>
>> int main(void)
>> {
>>   double FramesPerSecond = double(90000) / 3003;
>>   //FramesPerSecond = 25;
>>   for (int Index = 0; Index < 10000; Index++) {
>>       double Seconds;
>>       int f = round(modf(Index / FramesPerSecond, &Seconds) * FramesPerSecond) + 1;
>>       int s = int(Seconds);
>>       int m = s / 60 % 60;
>>       int h = s / 3600;
>>       s %= 60;
>>       printf("%3d ", Index);
>>       printf("%15.9f ", Index / FramesPerSecond);
>>       printf("%d:%02d:%02d.%02d", h, m, s, f);
>>       if (f > 30) printf(" *");
>>       printf("\n");
>>       }
>> }
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ... sometimes results in a 31st frame:
>>
>> 9978   332.932600000 0:05:32.29
>> 9979   332.965966667 0:05:32.30
>> 9980   332.999333333 0:05:32.31 *
>> 9981   333.032700000 0:05:33.02
>> 9982   333.066066667 0:05:33.03
>>
>>
>> Any ideas how to fix this?
> 
> eg
> 
> - int f = round(modf(Index / FramesPerSecond, &Seconds) * FramesPerSecond) + 1;
> + int f = round(modf(Index / FramesPerSecond, &Seconds) * FramesPerSecond + 0.5 );
> 
> note that some 'seconds' will contain only 29 frames. (see index 510 in the original
> and 1019 in the fixed version)

I'm afraid this isn't feasible. The '+1' is done to make the first frame
(at Index 0) have number '1'. With your change it would be numbered '0'.

Klaus