> Computer monitors are not all 60hz, and I cited anime as one example; TV and movies also have jerky playback.
The ones that are 60hz are 60hz, and that's not the reason monitors aren't TVs. They aren't TVs because they don't have one of 1. black frame insertion 2. 60->120fps motion interpolation, so you have persistence of vision issues. (aka motion blur, jerkiness, or both at once)
Movies are also 24fps, though of course they're different from animation because they have built in motion blur (same as if you recorded with 1/24 exposure time vs 1/1000).
mpv's video retiming works some of the time, but means it changes the pitch of audio which is sometimes unacceptable, same as old NTSC->PAL transfers.
…if your monitor has variable refresh rate why are you using retiming?
>They aren't TVs because they don't have one of 1. black frame insertion 2. 60->120fps motion interpolation
Most older LCD TVs do not have either black frame insertion or motion interpolation. BFI causes motion artifacts (trailing ghost images) if the frame rate of the video is less than the refresh rate. Motion interpolation also adds its own artifacts.
>mpv's video retiming works some of the time, but means it changes the pitch of audio
The best way to use it is to set custom monitor timings (e.g. with xrandr) so that the adjustment needed is too small to detect. There are various scripts to automate this, although I haven't personally tried any (I just change mode manually).
>if your monitor has variable refresh rate why are you using retiming?
I have a VRR monitor, but I still use retiming because it only has a 6 bit panel, and VRR makes temporal dithering artifacts ("frame rate control") visible.
Yeah, those LCD panels aren't actually good enough to be TVs. A lot of them were 60hz as well, or at best 120hz with HDMI 2.0 which didn't support VRR so your playback device probably wouldn't send them 24fps.
The ones that are 60hz are 60hz, and that's not the reason monitors aren't TVs. They aren't TVs because they don't have one of 1. black frame insertion 2. 60->120fps motion interpolation, so you have persistence of vision issues. (aka motion blur, jerkiness, or both at once)
Movies are also 24fps, though of course they're different from animation because they have built in motion blur (same as if you recorded with 1/24 exposure time vs 1/1000).
mpv's video retiming works some of the time, but means it changes the pitch of audio which is sometimes unacceptable, same as old NTSC->PAL transfers.
…if your monitor has variable refresh rate why are you using retiming?