Problems putting avi 24.99fps on NTSC DVD

[freezeepopprice]

Hi All,

I'm a complete beginner with burning to DVD . I'm trying to put an avi onto a DVD-R.

According to GSPOT the source avi is:
640x320 (2.00:1) , 24.999 fps, and uses the divX 5.0 Codec.

I'm not really sure if an avi can really be classified as PAL or NTSC but I would suspect it is more PAL like since it is ~25fps.

I used AVI2DVD 0.4.3 to convert and author the DVD using HCenc 0.16. The input and output aspect ratio were left at 16:9. In the Pal Ntsc Convertion (sic) box the Pal to Ntsc check box is greyed out and the Ntsc to Pal box I did NOT check (since I want NTSC). No subtitles were used.

After encoding I got both an iso and a file layout for the DVD. Playing these with PowerDVD looked fine. I burned the DVD with Nero at 8x (from the VIDEO_TS folder). It played on the PC but not on the DVD player (disc error). I burned the iso directly with imgburn at 4x. Again this DVD played on the PC but not on the player. I put it in my ps2 and the "TV system does not match" message came up.

Looks like I have now burned 2 PAL DVDs

Looking at the information tab in Power DVD it seems that a PAL DVD was created.

How am I supposed to create an NTSC DVD with the box greyed out? It looks like the box is also greyed out in the tutorials on AVI2DVD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My burner is a LG-4167B ... My media is maxell DVD-R (RitekG05)

[guns1inger]

You could use FitCD to create an avisynth script to run directly through HCEnc. This would sort you video problem, although you would have to then deal with the audio and authoring manually.

Or you could take the PAL disk you have and try to convert that to NTSC, as it will actually be recognised correctly now.

[freezeepopprice]

Thanks gunslinger.

The first thing you mention sounds pretty complicated (At least to a newbie like myself).

The idea of converting the PAL source (which is an avi not a disk) sounds more likely.

Interestingly enough I have 3 test AVI.

1. 640x320 (2.00:1) , 24.999 fps, divX 5.0. (the one mentioned)
2. 560x304 (1.84:1) , 25.000 fps, XviD. (the one mentioned)
3. 560x320 (1.75:1) , 23.976 fps, XviD. (the one mentioned)

AVI2DVD recognizes (as far as I can tell with the options being shown) these as:

1. NTSC
2. PAL
3. NTSC

It seems to me that AVI2DVD is in error with the first test avi. What tool would I use to make it think the first one is PAL or to convert it to NTSC input?

[roybmx]

Have you tried using tmpgenc? thats quite easy to use then author it with tmpgenc dvdauthor