Resampling Framerate

[humdinger]

Anyone got any good tips on resampling framerates with freeware/shareware tools? I have a 15fps divx which im trying to encode to vcd mpg with ffmpgX, it works fine, except the video plays twice as fast to keep up the vcd standard framerate

[ZeroSix]

this might work, but i am not sure if your DVD player will support it.

Use the ffmpeg engine in ffmpegX and NOT the mpeg2enc engine. Change the framerate to match your source and make sure you tell it to author as a VCD. Then drop the resulting .BIN file onto Toast in VCD mode. This should work. If your player does not support a VCD at 15fps, then your only other option is to use the Toast VCD export within Quicktime.

[humdinger]

Hmm - i tried the ffmpg engine, and although it actually ran after setting to 15fps (mpg2enc just gave errors) the resulting file played just plain weird, like it couldnt decide which framerate it was suppsed to be. I should explain what I'm trying to do a bit better - I'm not actually trying to make compliant VCD, which is why I didn't bother with toast (bsides toast takes aaaages and gives crappy quality). I'm trying to archive some DivXs as a VCD dvd, because their quality is just too poor to bother with making a proper DVD, and there are 64 episodes which I want to cram on as few a discs as possible. This of course means I need 48khz audio, so I've been trying to find a way of creating a template which will give me the right format straight off the bat, rather than encoding as VCD, demuxing, then converting the audio. FfmpgX gives me this flexibility though unfortunatly I hit the frame rate problem I guess the only other solution is to burn all the DivXs to one dvd, and buy a DVD player which supports divX

[bilestyle]

actually you need 44.1 khz audio for vcd.. u want 48 khz for dvd only.
maybe using the frame rate change engine in mediapipe would be useful.. although i dont know if mediapipe decodes divx other than xvid... so it might only be an option if the codec is xvid... i havent used mediapipe in a while so i cant give explicit instructions, but if you can find out what codec was used with these divx files maybe mediapipe could be an option

[humdinger]

ah, sounds worth investigating. I know vcd requires 44.1khz, but as im trying to make it play from dvd i need to have it at 48khz. According to ffmpgX its using the 3ivx codec to decode the files, i don't know if thats any help?

[ZeroSix]

Just burn them to a DVD-R or CD-R as .avi format and wait until you can get a DivX player... they are so worth it.