Horizontal scrolling when playing DVD on Television

[kac]

Hi, I've tried to not ask this question here and find the answer on the web, but no luck. I guess I'm the only person to experience it

I ran ffmpegx on a divx to convert to DVD. I just used the pull-down menu to make my settings, (Video and Tools both set to DVD).

The information above the "open" button is "VIDEO: DIVX, size: 576x240, 25.000 fps, 841 kbps. AUDIO: mp3, 48000Hz, 128 kbps."

After about 5 hours I got a "failed" notice on the progress window. The message was something about "%d" (other posts refer to it too). I was left with a "movie.m2v" , "movie.mpg" , and a "movie.mp2". All three files play in QT or Itunes. The fix according to the replies to others that have had the same error was to use Sizzle. So I combined the m2v and the mp2 together and rendered. Then took the result to toast and burned the disk.

When I try to play the movie in my home dvd player I get a horizontal scroll/flicker. Kind of like the old tvs that you had to turn a knob at the back to slow down the scrolling image. The scroll is so fast that you can see the movie but it's unwatchable. The audio is fine.

The movie give me a -70001 error in Apple's DVD Player. (loads but doesn't play, when I manually hit "play" I get the error.

The movie plays on VLC fine.

When I load the Video_TS into FFmpegx the information above the open button is "VIDEO: mpeg-2, size: 720x576, 25.000 fps, 4000 kbps. AUDIO: mp2, 48000Hz, 224 kbps."

If anyone knows what the problem is please let me know. I have been leaning towards some compatability issure with PAL v. NTSC but can't find any information to be sure.

Thx.

[raeshao]

It sounds like you're trying to play a video that's encoded in the PAL format on a NTSC television. Looking at the specs of your divx file - the 25fps is definitely PAL. It sounds like the problem you're having with Apple DVD playback is unrelated.

[rastaruss]

I just encoded a PAL (25 FPS) .avi file to KSVCD, the result played on my DVD player.

My DVD is a MalataDVP-500P, a multi-region player from China, which is designed to adapt to PAL or NTSC systems. Usually, if I set the option to NTSC or MULTI-SYSTEM, I can view any video fine, however, if I set it to PAL, I get the rolling, scrolling video you describe (an incompatible PAL signal).

However, this KSCVD was PAL, and my DVD player set to MULTI-SYSTEM, now outputs a PAL signal. If I set the option to NTSC, the player does the conversion and it plays back just as intended.

Many DVD players don't have multi-system options. Your DVD will work on a PAL or multi-region DVD player.

At least, that's what I think...

ffmpegx will not smoothly convert from PAL to NTSC without a lot of sync problems. You'll need to try to re-encode from scratch, but the sync could be a big problem... haven't tried it myself.

[kac]

Thanks for the replies, Since I originally posted the problem I have converted it to NTSC and burned it. Worked like it should (even no audio sync problems), so the problem was that the original was PAL. Which is kind of strange because my player is supposed to handle/convert PAL.

Thanks,