DVD to DVDR NTSC 4:3 Interlaced Dual Layer

[spudz2]

Ok I'm having some probs... I need to use Option 3 from Blackout's DVD ripping guide.. Here is my situation..

The DVD I want to rip is a DVD9. However it's not a movie.. It's a music video DVD.. It has no menus and no subtitles.. You put it in and it just plays instantly for 2hrs 24mins.. It's NTSC 4:3 Interlaced and 29.97 fps. and the audio is PCM 2 channel.

So obvously I need to reencode the video down so I can fit it on a DVD-R. The problem I have is all the guides seem to talk about movies which are generally 16:9 and have AC3 audio etc.. When I tried loading the .m2v file into Maestro it wouldn't load into it saying something about not acceptable framerate.. So I used the pulldown.exe file I read about on doom9 and then it accepted it but it said it was 1hr something now even though when I played it in WMP it showed the right time.. So when I burned it to a DVD-RW to test the audio was off from the video.. Also the video was screwy looking with some kind of flickering.. I'm used CCE for the encoding.. I could try TMPGENC but it will take like 25hrs or something..

This should be an easy rip because it's just audio and video but it's proving hard for me.. Can anyone give any advice?

Much appreciated if you can...

[spudz2]

Surely I can't be the only one who has tried to do a 4:3 interlaced DVD9 rip?

I can't find any specific 4:3 interlaced guides around anywhere.. all the guides are geared to 16:9 only it seems...

Spudz

[SLK001]

Surely I can't be the only one who has tried to do a 4:3 interlaced DVD9 rip?

No, you're not the only one who uses 4:3 interlaced video. It's just that your posts don't make any sense.

First, you said that Maestro wouldn't accept your .M2V video because of framerate issues. Then you applied a 3:2 pulldown and got it to work. This tells me that your original was really NTSC FILM (or maybe just FILM). What made you think that this was a NTSC interlaced video?

Second, the guides aren't specifically geared for 4:3 or 16:9 (the techniques are the same for both aspect ratios). It's just that most movies are 16:9, so this is what the examples are using.

Third, your "flickering video" is probably due to improper encoding (most likely the wrong "field order").

So, it is obvious that you are a "newbie" at this who hasn't taken the time to learn what he needs to know before embarking on the re-encoding quest (don't worry, you are not alone). Not that learning by doing is a bad thing - that's how I learned a good deal of my "know-how" - it's just that you need to spend more time in the classroom, and less time at the teacher's deak asking questions.

I suggest that you cut yourself a 5 to 10 minute clip of your video, and try various settings in CCE to see what they do and to find one that "works for you". I suggest that you read the CCE manual. It does a pretty good job of explaining the various functions of the encoding settings. You will learn far more far faster from this experience than you will asking questions one-at-a-time (or a bunch of questions at a time). If you get stumped on one thing, most people are very willing to tell you the correct settings, and also with the "why".

I think that the real reason nobody answered your posts, is that they said, "Oh, man, here's another one who doesn't want to read and learn from the guides..." And then, when the poster gets ignored, he usually reposts with some statement that either we (the VCDHelp community) are ignoring him, or that his problems are really unique and aren't solved by the guides.

By the way, how large is your .M2V file and also your LPCM file? You might be able to just convert the PCM audio to .AC3 and fit everything on one disk.