SVCD PAL to SVCD NTSC problems

[twistedhulk]

Alright. I'm trying to convert a SVCD, which is in PAL, to NTSC because my DVD player wont play SVCD in PAL.

I've tried everything and am pretty frustrated right now. First I couldnt open the mpeg2 file from the SVCD in TMPGEnc. Then I used ISOBuster to extract the mpeg2 and then load that up in TMPGEnc, which worked.

Then I chose the NTSC (regular) template and started encoding. After the encode I used Nero to burn the SVCD at 8x (thinking maybe slower speed burning will make sure it doesnt mess up, but I have a 48x burner). Everthing went okay. So I checked on my computer to see if the new SVCD played properly and it did, with some minor quality degradation. I put the same SVCD on my stand alone DVD player Sony DVP-NS325 and got a jerky playback. The sound and video were in sync but when their was high motion the picture was shaking.

So I thought I messed up in encodiong so I tried the NTSC (Film) template in TMPGEnc and started encoding. Did everthing else as above and got the same jerkyness on my standalone DVD player.

Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

PLEASE HELP.

[MrKGB]

tmpgenc converts frame rate from 25 to 29,97 by inserting duplicate frames. this is why the motion is jerkey.
there are some scripts around for avisynth, which will do the job, the only problem is that it is not easy to open mpeg in avisynth.
the easiest would be to use virtualdubmod, which can open mpeg2, frameserve, then open the frameserved file in avisynth script which will do the actual conversion.

[twistedhulk]

thanks MrKGB, but would you know where i can find all the info to do all that? I'm kinda new here.

[MrKGB]

twistedhulk,
you can find the info right here in the thread "PAL to NTSC conversion HELP"
btw, many standalone players in the US support PAL playback, so maybe you don't even need conversion. did you try to play your pal svcds on your player?

[twistedhulk]

Yeah I tried playing the PAL SVCD on my player. It gives big green blocks on the top and bottown parts of the screen.

[jrbling]

mrKGB, the most effective way to convert from PAL to NTSC (film) in my opinion is to follow these steps:

1) copy the avseq from the source svcd to your hard drive, this will use less system resources and speed up the process as you dont have to encode directly off of the svcd.

2) use dvd2avi and load the avseq file, set audio to demux (default), save the project, be sure to note any delay on the mpa audio file that dvd2avi spits out

3) load the d2v project in tmpgenc, load the svcd film template, in the settings>advanced tab, check 'do not framerate conversion', then change to desired bitrate and mark the option 'video only', then encode and you will have an m2v file.

4) as for the audio, the way ive learned to do this is to load teh mpa file in tmpenc, then go to file>output to file, save as a wav. Then use besweet and load this wav. There is an option in besweet that is marked 'presets', use this to convert from PAL to NTSC (23.976). also be sure to input any delay that was reported by dvd2avi. Convert this wav to an mp2 file.

5) now with your m2v (video) and mp2 (audio), use bbmpg to mux, as where tmpgenc may not properly account for any delay if there is one. In bbmpeg leave only the mux audio mux video boxes checked, the save, and you should end up with an mpg2 file that is NTSC and you can burn to a cd however you wish.