720p24 telecined to 720p24, how to play and/or edit?

[wozio]

Hi,

I have film source 720p24 recorded from tv broadcast where it is telecined to 720p60. Doing frame by frame stepping it is clearly visible that frames are repeated in aabbb sequence. I want to play it to have original 24 fps for best display on 48 Hz tv.

Is it possible at all without editing and/or recompressing? VMR9 doesn't process at all since it is progressive source while pulldown is only possible for interlaced source afaik.

If not then what is the best method of removing not needed frames?

Regards
Piotr

[Adub]

I am pretty sure you can do a basic decimation with a filter such as TDecimate.

[Guest]

SelectEven()
Decimate(5)

And don't ask "what's best". It violates our forum rule 12.

[wozio]

Yes, but this basically decodes video, then removes not needed frames and must be reencoded to have playable file at 23.976, right? Is it possible to just remove not needed frames WITHOUT reencoding? I don't want to play via avisynth.

[Guest]

You can't decimate an MPEG2 stream without re-encoding. Maybe a player could drop frames during playback, but your source file would not be altered.

[Atak_Snajpera]

I don't want to play via avisynth.
Why you so afraid of using avisynth?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1067566#post1067566

[wozio]

I'm not afraid, this is great method for haing original p24 but I was just looking for method to edit original file, just remove not needed frames without reencoding, to have smaller file.

[Shinigami-Sama]

I'm not afraid, this is great method for haing original p24 but I was just looking for method to edit original file, just remove not needed frames without reencoding, to have smaller file.

You can't decimate an MPEG2 stream without re-encoding. Maybe a player could drop frames during playback, but your source file would not be altered.

so in other words
it can't be done the way you want it to be done

[wozio]

Now I know that :)

After some thinking I assume that it wouldn't reduce much file size anyway. I assume that these extra frames are encoded with almost zero bitrate since they are the same.