MPlayer and downloaded movies

So... you've downloaded a movie off the internet that's been ripped from an NTSC DVD, and being a film-source it's at 23.976 frames per second. But you're in a PAL country, and you want to watch this movie on your TV thanks to a PC with video output. If you watch it as is, there's an odd, slightly annoying judder due to the difference in frame rates. What to do?

What you CAN do is get hold of MPlayer - the ace, command-line run media player that's been ported from Linux to Windows, which, as it turns out, is the most Swiss Army Knife-ish program that you can get for media files. And then you type mplayer moviename.avi -speed 1.0427, which results in the movie getting played just over 4% faster... turning 23.976fps to 24.999752fps, which is so close to 25fps that you're looking at less than one frame judder every million frames (just over 11 hours).

MPlayer rocks.