[Bf-committers] Fractional fps (was: Problems with time in do_nla())

[Martin Poirier]

--- Ken Hughes <khughes at pacific.edu> wrote:

> Roland Hess wrote:
> >
> > First, I'm not sure why I never realized it, but
> Blender's global 
> > current frame variable is a short integer.
> 
> This reminded me of another minor annoyance.  I use
> blender to make 
> videos, some 4 to 5 minutes in length, which are
> synchronized to music 
> and later output to DV tape.  For DV, most things
> use Type 1 or Type 2 
> AVI files, which expect 29.97 frames/sec.  Since
> Blender's frs_sec param 
> is a short, I have to use something like transcode
> to my files into 
> something with the correct rate.  (29.97 vs 30 may
> seem minor, but in a 
> 5 minute video it translates to a 9 frame or 0.30
> sec difference, which 
> when synchronized to music is very noticable).
> 
> What is the opinion about making frs_sec store
> rate*100? It would still 
> fit into a short (current UI allows values from 1 to
> 120), and would 
> only require changing 45 or so places in the code
> :-)

What would be even better is changing it for a
fraction (num/denum). IIRC, that's how the framerate
is stored in AVI files.

That might require too much changes internally though.

Martin


		
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