Integrating element streams?

[thermie]

I'm having trouble using DGPulldown. Or, rather, I can convert using it but tmpgend cannot stitch in the audio and video without losing sync. (separately, in my old Pinnacle Impression program, it syncs,)

I noticed that in Windows Media Player, the M2V file was timed at 36 minutes after PAL->NTSC conversion. (it's 51 minutes) I think that's part of the reaosn why Tmpgenc won't meld the audio and video correctly.

Impression read the files but couldn't burn me a disc so I'm SOL. Apart from ulead movie maker 8 that uses elemental streams (but a user review said that program couldn't sync the streams either), I don't know of any programs that'll burn separate streams.

Is the problem in applications seeing the movie as 36 minutes? Or is there a good program that will work with elemental streams?

Any help would be appreciated muchly!

Thanks for reading!

[guns1inger]

The difference between PAL and NTSC is approx 4% (25 fps vs 23.976 fps). If you have gone from 36 to 51 minutes then something else is seriously wrong.

Explain slowly what you have done to create your video, then what you did with dgpulldown.

[thermie]

The difference between PAL and NTSC is approx 4% (25 fps vs 23.976 fps). If you have gone from 36 to 51 minutes then something else is seriously wrong.

Explain slowly what you have done to create your video, then what you did with dgpulldown.

Thanks. I used virtualdub to resize the image to 720x480 (Lancazos) after deinterlacing it.

I then used tmpgenc to make it into an elemental mpeg2 (m2v for video, mp2 for audio if I recall). Lowest compression level to retain quality.

With dgpulldown I used the 25->29.97 option on the m2v file. It was after this point did Windows Media Player see the video element as 36 minutes.

As did tmpgenc I suspect as muxing the video and audio together produced a nasty sync problem. (yet another program played both video and audio properly, but can't create the DVD itself because it's incompatible with my newer hardware)

[guns1inger]

Have you read this guide ?

http://www.johnisme.com/avi1.shtml