DVDx framerate issues

[PlasticDVDr]

After loading a DVD up into DVDx and looking over its input settings, specifically its framerate, I then choose the same framerate for the output which in my case is 29.76. The problem is, after encoding the movie to Divx, the video seems to play 1.5x faster then it should and the audio is
out of sync, my first conclusion lead me to believe that I must have the wrong frame rate selected, however when selecting a lower framerate (24) DVDx tells me that the framerate for the input and output are different.

[theDruid]

This is not going to help you much - but at least it will give you a bump!

1.) Are you sure of the framerate on the source? Are you just taking DVDx's word for it?

2.) DVDx wouldn't be my first choice for encoding to DivX (infact it wouldn't really be my first choice for anything, although I respect it being freeware and quite versatile etc..)

I would use VirtualDubMOD or VirtualDub-MPEG2 etc.. to encode to DivX from a DVD (having used Smartripper to rip the DVD to a single large VOB on the hard disk).

As I say - not especially helpful on your actual question - but I suspect the reason you've not had any answers yet is because not that many people use DVDx all that much - and especially not for converting to DivX.

I could be wrong on some, most or all of the above!!

cheers,
mcdruid.

[PlasticDVDr]

Thanks for the reply it was more then helpful. I just want to convert my DVD's to Divx so that I can watch them through the Windows XP Media Center interface without having to continually get up from my couch and change the DVD in my DVD-ROM.

[sn0wb0ard3r13]

All i use is smartripper and dvdx. Those 2 work fine for me. My little secret is the 'force 24hz' option. it usually works. what i do to make sure, is when you're in the output section and you click 'whole', open up calculator, change the movie time to seconds, then divide frames/seconds, and you know what framerate to use. if it's 23.976 (or close) then use the 'force 24 hz' option. i had the same problem you did. i read somewhere that the problem is because some dvd's are 23.976 progressive as opposed to interlaced but i'm not exactly sure what i'm talking about ...