Widescreen AVI to DVD

[Spacedementia87]

I have a few films in Xvid on my computer and would like to put them on DVD.

The AVI files are wide screen (not 16:9 but some strange thing)
I use Win AVI Video Converter to convert to VOBs and have both aspect settings on Auto.

Now i did one, and it made it a letterboxed 4:3 picture, so it was really thin and stretched when viewing it in the widescreen mode on my TV.

How do i make it a 16:9 DVD (obviously will end up with black bars top and bottom cos of the strange aspect.)

[Baldrick]

use something better like tmpgenc,divxtodvd,etc.

[guns1inger]

WinAVI converter is monkey crap.

That said, it sounds like it hace correctly encoded the video, except it neglected to put the 16:9 flags in along the way. Use DVD Patcher or IFOEdit to set the flags correctly, then see what it looks like. If is was 1.78 to begin with, you won't get black bars on a widescreen TV or in the encoded file.

[Spacedementia87]

Well i have encoded another film with Tmpgeng.

And it still displays undistorted in 4:3 mode on the TV

The original AVI was 1.87:1

Am about to convert one that is 2.4:1.

So anyway i can get it to display properly in widescreen mode (with black bars obv.) and not in 4:3 mode

[Spacedementia87]

Oh yea and also the source AVI is 23.976FPS when i live in UK and so would like to convert it to 25FPS

So what settings would i put in TMPGEnc?

[jagabo]

In TMPGEnc go to Settings -> Advanced. Set the Source Aspect Ratio to 1:1 VGA. Set the Video Arrange Method to Full Screen Keep Aspect Ratio. Go to the Video tab and set Aspect Ratio to 16:9 Display. Encode.

That will give you a 16:9 anamorphic encoding.

[Spacedementia87]

how about making it 25FPS instead of 23.976?

[jagabo]

how about making it 25FPS instead of 23.976?

The easiest thing to do is set TMPGEnc to output 25 fps. It will convert 24 fps to 25 fps by duplicating one frame out of every 24 thereby turning 24 frames into 25. This will be noticeable as one little jerk every second when you watch it.

The better way is to set the output frame rate to 25 fps and turn on the Do Not Frame Rate Convert option on the Advanced tab. This will simply make the frames flip by faster -- but of course the movie will run for a shorter period of time. So you have to export the audio, edit it in a program that lets you adjust the running time (23.976/25), then import that result into TMPGEnc.

[Spacedementia87]

Right i am doing the latter for the frame rate conversion.


Now on the audio front I exported the AC3 into a multi channel WAV (as it is a 6ch AC3) using virtualdubmod, which made a decent WAV file, listened to it and it sounds fine.

Now i used THE AC3 Machine and Besweet to convert it to an AC3 with 25 FPS...
Now the audio is crap. Really harsh and poppy. sounds like it is being played through eatphone speakers at a VERY high volume.

What is the problem?

[Abond]

Now the audio is crap. Really harsh and poppy. sounds like it is being played through eatphone speakers at a VERY high volume.

What is the problem?

This is why my prefered method is to use DGPulldown for 23.976->25 pulldown and use the original audio.

[Spacedementia87]

but i want to redo the video the way i have, because adding that duplicate frame made it look utter crap.
Jerking about very second..

[Abond]

DGPulldown doesn't duplicate anything. It simply marks some frames to have repeated fields at playback. Try it and see.
Here is a guide:
http://www.johnisme.com/avi1.shtml

[Spacedementia87]

Ok if what i am doing at the moment doesn't work i will