Output AVI from DVDFab has doubled the video

[alffan]

Hello

I've searched for an answer everywhere, but sadly wasn't able to find one (maybe my phrasing wasn't right).

I was backing up some old Television DVD's to AVI using DVD Fab and encountered two problems.
One was that the output AVI had replicated the video, so it looks like this.

The other, I encountered only in one DVD, and the output AVI had only captured about 70% of the screen (as if it had zoomed in, and encoded only three fourths of the video)

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you so much!

[hech54]

These are home-made DVDs made in a DVD recorder....probably in that ridiculous "6 Hour - SLP" mode?

[alffan]

I didn't make them myself (got it from a contact) but yes, I think you are right. The DVD works perfectly.

I also used Freemake video converter to convert it, but the resulting audio and video were badly out of sync. The same thing happened with Any Video Converter Professional.

[hech54]

What you have there is called HalfD1
https://www.videohelp.com/glossary?H#Half%20D1
I have a DVD like that here....I'm going to experiment a bit and get back to you.
I've worked with this disc many times but I've never tried "newbie friendly" methods.
Suffice it to say just throwing it into a freeware converter is not going to work without at least some tweaking.

[alffan]

Thank you so much, it would be a great help.

[hech54]

Most likely the video on your DVD is similar to this:

Video
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Width : 352 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.498
Stream size : 2.82 MiB (88%)


Audio
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Duration : 9s 440ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Video delay : -40ms
Stream size : 295 KiB (9%)

I ran a sample of mine through WinFF(changing the output video to 704x576)

and it created this:
https://rapidshare.com/files/1837144329/HalfD1test.avi

The audio is also still in sync.
You MAY however want to use VOB2MPEG (FREE) on that disc first to create one, large VOB(MPEG) file....then run it through
WinFF.

As stated...both WinFF and VOB2MPEG are FREE and contain no junk spyware or adware.
Also beware that sync problems were pretty common with older DVD recorders when trying to process the material afterwards in a computer(as you are doing). You have a "double whammy"....HalfD1 and what appears to be a disc made with one of those recorders that creates sync problems during post-processing.