a little help plz *sigh*

[Toka]

Hey, I downloaded this mpeg file but I would like to know how how to find out info about it, such as, is it pal or ntsc?

Also I need to make it into 2 files and also if it is ntsc then I need to make it pal, what program could I use to do this but keep its current quality?

Thank You

[MikeV]

Open the mpeg in windows media player, goto file, properties and it should tell you the resolution.

Answer to part 2 use TMPGnc.

[Mr Grumpy]

Download GSpot from the tools section - it'll tell you all the properties of an AVI. The Framerate tells you whether it's PAL (25fps) or NTSC(~24fps or ~30fps)

There are several good guides on here for converting PAL<->NTSC - do a forum search or look in the guides section.

[mats.hogberg]

Generally, there's no point in doing a NTSC -> PAL conversion, as most PAL gear (DVD/TV) has no problem with NTSC mpegs, but conversion is likely to introduce audio sync issues that's not trivial to handle.

/Mats

[cumminc]

I spent weeks trying framerate conversions. Not worth it because of sound problems.

best use the format the source file is in and your player will almost certainly play it unless it is older than me.

G Spot is the best programme i could find for video info and TMPGENC is also a good converter and encoder but look at the posts and help tools. Settings can cause electrical brain storms for beginners like myself.

Good Luck

[ZippyP.]

Mpegproperties (in the Tools section) does what it's name suggests.

[Toka]

Open the mpeg in windows media player, goto file, properties and it should tell you the resolution.

Answer to part 2 use TMPGnc.

The problem I have with TMPGnc is when there is fast movement it(the converted mpeg file) looks kinda crapy.

[mats.hogberg]

If you're lucky, and the mpeg in some way corresponds to VCD/SVCD/CVD standard, you might even be able to burn it as one of the above without doing anything to it - possibly remultiplexing it as VCD or SVCD to make it compliant. Take a look at valid resolutions/bitrates for the different formats, and see if you have a match.
If you get lousy quality on high motion scenes, this is because of low bit rate, but there's nothing going to help - reencoding/converting always results in a copy more or less worse than the original.

/Mats