PAL or NTCS???

[crack_man]

Hi
I live in Sweden and have a divx movie which source is 23.976 framerate,I want to burn it to xvcd and I´m wondering which settings I should have in TMPGEnc.

1) Should I choose interlaced or not and I have non clue what in field order I should set.

2) I live in Europe so should I choose PAL or NTSC?I thought that if a movies source is in PAL then I encode it to PAL and if the movie was in NTCS,then I encode it to NTCS.Is this right?

[Craig Tucker]

If it is divx, it is almost certainly not interlaced.

Providing your hardware can play it correctly encode to the same format as the source. NTSC film

[bugster]

Hi
I live in Sweden and have a divx movie which source is 23.976 framerate,I want to burn it to xvcd and I´m wondering which settings I should have in TMPGEnc.

1) Should I choose interlaced or not and I have non clue what in field order I should set.

2) I live in Europe so should I choose PAL or NTSC?I thought that if a movies source is in PAL then I encode it to PAL and if the movie was in NTCS,then I encode it to NTCS.Is this right?

Answering your questions in order:-

1) Divx is NEVER interlaced. AFAIK it does not support it. So if your source is progressive you should encode to progressive.

2) If your DVD player and TV will handle NTSC then encode to NTSC otherwise converting to PAL and getting smooth playback is a pain. The chances of your DVD player and TV handling NTSC are pretty high.

If the source is 23.97fps and you are encoding in TmpGenc, set the following settings on the video tab:-
Encode Mode 3:2 Pulldown whne playback
Framerate: 23.976 (29.976 fps internally)

[crack_man]

If it is divx, it is almost certainly not interlaced.

Providing your hardware can play it correctly encode to the same format as the source. NTSC film

I have encoded it to NTSC before and it worked so does all my movies work now?

[crack_man]

I still don´t get it.I have read a article about fitting a movie to one CD and the guides tell me to use interlaced and Field Bottom B.
I have no idea what "interlaced" or not "interlaced" is for something.
I don´t even know what field bottom is.
Here´s the guide which told me to use interlaced:
http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/84759.php

[Craig Tucker]

I just glossed over that guide and that is a guide for ripping from a DVD and encoding to XVCD where the DVD source is interlaced. If your source is a DIVX file it will not be interlaced. If your source is interlaced TMPGEnc will detect this and judge the field order for you.

If you want to know more about interlacing look here.

http://www.lukesvideo.com/