xvid PAL to NTSC DVD

[dave_c]

i must do this conversion as my dvd player can't play PAL.

i have tmpgenc, besweet, and virtualdub at hand. what's the most efficient way to do this? the video file is using xvid mpeg-4 and the audio is mpeg-3, according to avicodec.

convert the audio to mpa/mp2 with besweet and select 25 fps to 23.976fps


convert the video to mpeg with tmpgenc and use 23,976 with 3:2 pulldown and be sure to use do not frame convert under advanced.




last author with tmpgenc dvd author, add the video and then add the mp2/mpa audio file.

[Sephirot]

why exactly do you advice him to convert to MP2? Seems to me that AC3 is a lot more compatible with NTSC dvd players...

[FulciLives]

BeSweet and the BeSweet GUI oftentimes have trouble converting from one format to another (doing the FPS change) unless you are gong from PCM WAV to PCM WAV.

So I suggest you convert your original MP3 audio to a Stereo 16-bit 48k PCM WAV audio file first. Then convert that PCM WAV to a new PCM WAV using the FPS change in BeSweet THEN convert that corrected for length PCM WAV to your final format be it MP2 or AC-3 and for a DVD AC-3 is more "safe" in terms of compatiblity than MP2.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Efrain Ruiz]

Shouldn't he use 3:2 Pulldown ONLY when converting a 23.976 fps NTSC? When converting from 25 fps PAL using TMPGEnc, he should just choose the DVD NTSC template and convert straight to 29.97 fps without any pulldown.

I have done this numerous times without a problem. I was doing the pulldown on PAL videos and I was getting jerkiness until someone pointed this out to me.