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[6233638]

I have a number of PAL films in my collection, but I use Video Clock to play them back at the original 24fps framerate. (well, 24/1.001 as Windows 8 doesn't seem to like switching to 24Hz)

When Video Clock is enabled, would it be possible to have Media Center display the correct playback time based on your selection in Video > Display Settings > PAL?

I am currently using this code to at least display the correct duration in the library:

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if(!isequal([FPS],25),[Duration],formatduration(math([Duration,0]*(25/23.97602397602398)),0))(I would have used 25/(24/1.001), but it doesn't seem to work)

but the progress bar still shows the original times when actually playing the film, so it's off by four or five minutes in most cases. The worst example I have is 2:46:54 displayed as 2:40:04

[MrC]

(I would have used 25/(24/1.001), but it doesn't seem to work)

Doesn't work, or is inaccurate?  See attached.

[6233638]

I was using:

math(25/(24/1.001))

Which wasn't working. It needs to be 25 ÷ (24/1.001) and not (25÷24)÷1.001, which is what math(25 / 24 / 1.001) does.

But reformatting it as

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if(!isequal([FPS],25),[Duration],formatduration(math([Duration,0]*(1.001 / 24 * 25)),0))
Works as intended. Though when you're only displaying it as hh:mm:ss, just using 25/23.97602397602398 was probably sufficient.

[MrC]

Place spaces around the / and the (, as otherwise MC gets confused that /( is not an escaped paren - hence the divide gets eaten).

[6233638]

Place spaces around the / and the (, as otherwise MC gets confused that /( is not an escaped paren - hence the divide gets eaten).

Oh, of course. Thanks.

Still, this only displays the correct times in the library, it would be nice if the progress bar could automatically be corrected based on the speed the file is being played back at using Video Clock, rather than the file itself.