Help! Confused.....

[andyg]

Have an Alba DVD player that basically plays anything I throw at it. This is very important.

Have converted files to mpeg before and burned them. End result - great VCD.

Have just converted my first DVD to VCD and it won't work.

When I say it won't work I mean that it plays fine on my PC in media player but when I try to playback on my DVD player what I see is the picture 'shunted' across to the left by about a third of the screen with the first third of the screen missing, a white line down the middle and a black space to the right of the line. The whole thing is flickering (like a monitor set at the wrong Hz settings) The sound is fine.

I know it's got nothing to do with NTSC 'cos the file is 25fps (PAL) - my DVD player and TV also support NTSC anyway.

I used DVDtoAVI to rip an AVI file from the VOB's and the AVI played fine. The specifications of the file are:

480x576, 24bit, 25fps (PAL), 121kb/sec, DivXmpg4v3

I used TMPGEnc to encode the AVI to Mpeg using the PAL template. The only thing I changed was the video setting to 16:9 PAL since I want it to play properly on my widescreen TV. I also had to clip the frame at the top and bottom to enable TMPGEnc to widen the screen to 16:9 (otherwise the picture had a frame all the way round)

The specifications of my burned VCD (as per Nero):

352x288, 25fps (PAL), Standard compliant: YES

So, I can't understand why it's not working.

[andyg]

One thing I have just noticed... My original file is interlace as per TMPGEnc. My encoded file is non-interlace (progressive). Does TMPGEnc automatically convert this or should I have put a tick in the De-Interlace box in advanced?

[andyg]

Thanks for looking guys but I've sorted it myself. It was an interlace problem. I de-interlaced my file with TMPGEnc and it now plays fine on my DVD player. Cheers. Will have to watch out for that the next time I rip a DVD.