Please confirm

[eurowave]

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I would like to confirm that if I rip a Widescreen DVD that reports in DVD2AVI as 16:9, then in TMPG, for best results to view on my normal non widescreen television, I set the source aspect ratio as 16:9 NTSC and the output as 4:3 NTSC with fullscreen and maintain aspect 2.

I should not always use Forced Film when I rip to ensure compatability.

I should always use field method B.

If I'm wrong, please tell me, and please tell me why.

Thank you so much for your time.

[poopyhead]

1) use forced film when dvd2avi indicates that the source video is of type FILM, progressive..it gets a little tricky when the source type is a percentage FILM and percentage NTSC (i.e. 98% FILM and 2% NTSC)...it's hard to draw the line on what percentage of FILM is required so that you should use forced film. i've been hearing some people say that the lowest amount of FILM percentage where u can still use forced film is 95% FILM. i'm not quite sure about that cuz i've forced film on some video types where the FILM percentage got as low as 90-91%. however, i recently had to turn force film OFF for man in the iron mask even though the lowest percentage film it reached was 95%. it's best to use your own judgement and then view your rip. (you'll know that you should turn off forced film when your dvd rip is jumpy and dvd2avi indicated there was a reasonable amount of NTSC percentage in the video)

2) as for field order, i'm not quite sure cuz the naming scheme varies from different versions of tmpgenc (best bet is to encode a bit at each field order on a cd-rw to test)