My first NTSC DVD, help needed on small points please.

[Colonel_Starr]

Hi,

I have done a lot of backups in my time, so I am experienced, but no expert.

I am about to do Hellboy (USA) and while I am sure that my player (pioneer DV 444 = progressive scan) does play NTSC I am not sure if I need to do anything in particular to the stream different from my normal method.

Mainly I am unsure about whether to 'Force Film' in DVD2AVI and also whether to use 'Pulldown' after re-encoding. I am at a loss as to whether 29.97 is preferable to 23.97 fps on PAL systems. As i said I am no expert.

The VOB details are thus:


Num. of picture read: 3121
Stream type: MPEG-2 MP@ML VBR
Resolution: 720*480
Aspect ratio: 16:9 Generic
Framerate: 29.97
Nom. bitrate: 9800000 Bit/Sec
VBV buffer size: 112
Constrained param. flag: No
Chroma format: 4:2:0
DCT precision: 10
Pic. structure: Frame
Field topfirst: No
DCT type: Frame
Quantscale: Nonlinear
Scan type: ZigZag
Frame type: Progressive
Notes:

For clarity my method is:
DVD2AVI
Simple AVISynth script
Re-encode with CCE
Author with Maestro

If I am to follow my normal method then that is fine, but I would be grateful if someone could assist me as I also have some issues regarding subs and their timing, do I need to do anything different(I use Subrip) and chapters, I just tried to import chapters and got I-frame inconsistency message. I am sure this is because I didn't use the FILM CCE.TXT, I used the normal one I usually do which obviously has different I-frame positions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

p.s I have searched and read lots, but am still confused as a lot of it contradicts each other.

[lenti_75]

if your player plays ntsc....don't do any changes, the quality won't be the same, no matter what you do, just a simple backup.

the problem is the tv....that has to read ntsc....and mostly european ones, they do, if not, the you have to convert it to 25fps.

[Colonel_Starr]

ok thanks.

I suppose I will soon find out if my tv plays NTSC ok. Should do it is fairly new.

C_S