I don't know how to convert this aspect ratio...

[JRyan2K]

I have finally figured out how to convert downloaded anime videos to DVD and get them to play on my DVD player, but I got some videos i want to burn on DVD, but i am not sure how to convert properly. In GSpot it is telling me the size and aspect ratio is (480X576)1:120. They are XVid files with FPS of 25. I'm currently trying to experiment in TMPGEnc to try and get them looking right, but my first attempt didn't work out good at all. Can someone help me out and instruct me on how to convert these files to make them NTSC-DVD playable? Thanks in advance.

[jimmalenko]

480x576 @ 25fps is PAL SVCD, but you say it's an XviD ? Boy, that's a real noodle-scratcher right there ...

Methinks it was probably originally a PAL SVCD that someone converted to XviD. It should just be a matter of loading your NTSC DVD template in TMPGEnc, then setting Aspect Ratio to 4:3, Frame Size to 720 x 480, and Video Arrange Method to Full Screen (Keep Aspect Ratio). You can always just go to File > Preview to see what differences different settings make to the way the final product will look without having to encode it first.

Also, I'd consider extracting the audio to a WAV file with Virtualdub (or any of its flavours), and re-encoding the audio seperately using something like besweet, belight, ffmpeggui etc. and then mux this back with your video in the authoring stage. Unless of course you have SSRC and TooLame configured in TMPGEnc, in wich case you could just load the WAV as your audio source and let them go to work.

[JRyan2K]

Thank you very much! Doing it that way worked...I was afraid I was going to have to set fields and settings manually and go thru extensive steps to get it to come out good, but it was rather easy. Thanks for helping.