Tried to convert an AVI to DVD and got a very funky error

[dib1066]

So the show I'm trying to convert is a download from a British TV broacast, so the framerate is PAL. Now this plays fine on the computer, but I wanted one for home viewing. So I opened up the handy-dandy FFmpegx sucker and tried to convert an avi to dvd. I changed the video size to 720X480. I changed the frame-rate to NTSC and I got this funky error from the log (in bright red with a clunk sound):

Encoding started on Sat Aug 13 05:29:06 PDT 2005
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
++ WARN: [yuvscaler] Could not infer norm (PAL/SECAM or NTSC) from input data (frame size=720x576, frame rate=24000:1001 fps)!!
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame size: 720x576 pixels (622080 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: frame rate: 24000/1001 fps (~23.976024)
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] input: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [yuvscaler] from 720x576, take 720x576+0+0, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] scale to 720x576, 720x576 being displayed, NOT_INTERLACED/PROGRESSIVE
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling uses the RESAMPLE algorithm,
INFO: [yuvscaler] without line switching
INFO: [yuvscaler] without time forwarding
INFO: [yuvscaler] Without luminance correction
INFO: [yuvscaler] Without chrominance correction
INFO: [yuvscaler] frame rate: 23.976 fps
INFO: [yuvscaler] Scaling ratio for width is 1 to 1
INFO: [yuvscaler] and is 1 to 1 for height
INFO: [yuvscaler] Specific downscaling routing number 4
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame size: 720x576 pixels (622080 bytes)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: frame rate: 24000/1001 fps (~23.976024)
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: interlace: none/progressive
INFO: [yuvscaler] output: sample aspect ratio: 1:1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming norm NTSC
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] 3:2 movie pulldown with frame rate set to decode rate not display rate
++ WARN: [mpeg2enc] 3:2 Setting frame rate code to display rate = 4 (29.970 fps)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to /Volumes/diblette/jerry-springer--the-opera/jerryspringer.m2v
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 576 pel
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 2 = 4:3 display
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 4 = 30000.0/1001.0 (NTSC VIDEO)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 4000 KBit/s
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 3 (Quantisation = 3) (1=best, 31=worst)
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: none/progressive
INFO: [mpeg2enc] New Sequence every 9999 Mbytes
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming non-video stream of 0 Kbps
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16
INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "NTSC"
INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 1
INFO: [mpeg2enc] 3:2 Pulldown selected frame decode rate = 23.976 fps
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Sample rate is greater than permitted in specified Level

So how would create something I can play on the home DVD in NTSC?

[Case]

++ WARN: [yuvscaler] Could not infer norm (PAL/SECAM or NTSC) from input data (frame size=720x576, frame rate=24000:1001 fps)!!

That's odd: PAL frame size and NTSC Film frame rate.
I suggest resizing to NTSC frame size, keeping NTSC film frame rate and setting a 3:2 pulldown, see if that overcomes the errors.

[dib1066]

I suggest resizing to NTSC frame size, keeping NTSC film frame rate and setting a 3:2 pulldown, see if that overcomes the errors.

Well, that's exactly what I did and how I got that error. Hence the confusion.

ETA So I tried it again, with the NTSC rate (not the film rate) resized the image, no letterboxing and 3:2 pulldown set. It seems to be going.