29.971 frame rate??

[dr9553]

ok so i have downloaded a couple of avi's whose frame ates are 29.971. I want to make these into SVCD's am i able to do that without the sync getting messed up? cause i am pretty sure you need to have it in NTSC (29.97) for mplayer to decode.

also on files that are not NTSC (29.97) i now get a vop not coded message in the info when it is encoding.. what does this mean?

[tgpo]

ok so i have downloaded a couple of avi's whose frame ates are 29.971. I want to make these into SVCD's am i able to do that without the sync getting messed up? cause i am pretty sure you need to have it in NTSC (29.97) for mplayer to decode.

Same thing here. The avi files I have are only 24min, so I can't see any difference at all. For longer movies you could open the audio and video in QT Pro, add scaled the audio to the video and export the audio back out. It should fix any problems with sync.

The problem isn't mplayer, it's with mpeg2enc. It only accepts standard frame rates.

[major]

DVD and SVCD can only use 25 fps, 29.97 fps or 23.98 fps mpeg-2 (with 3:2 pulldown). If your source has a different framerate, you must convert it to a standard framerate. Use "Decode with Quicktime" to minimize sync problems.

[dr9553]

cool. but everytime i try to decode something with quicktime i get this error:

Encoding started on Mon Apr 26 18:01:54 CDT 2004
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler (version 1.7.0) is a general scaling utility for yuv frames
INFO: [yuvscaler] (C) 2001-2002 Xavier Biquard <xbiquard@free.fr>
INFO: [yuvscaler] yuvscaler -h for help, or man yuvscaler
**ERROR: [yuvscaler] Could'nt read YUV4MPEG header!
**ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG2 header: system error (failed read/write)!

im not sure why. I have always gotten this too. Is there a plugin i am missing in my quicktime folder?

[tgpo]

Does quicktime play the files if you open them?

[dr9553]

yeah, with sound and everything..