help svcd playing upside down

[baynpokey]

can someone please help.. i have svcd's extension *.m2v is playing upside down. does anyone have a fix for this?

[Truman]

How did you encode it? What was the source?

[baynpokey]

i just downloaded the video. I used windows media player on xp to play. it plays upside down. but if i use powerdvd it plays correctly. its just i would rather use windows media player to play all my videos

[Truman]

It seem to be a kind of codec or DirectX problem, not sure about that. Since PowerDVD play it properly, it is encoded in the right way. If you can not find a solution, but want to play it with windows media player by all means, you could reencode the file using a flip-vertical filter.

[baynpokey]

thanks,
where would i get flip vertical filter and what encoding software should i use?

[Truman]

VirtualDub as well as Avisynth come with flip-vertical filters.
VirtualDub:
Open the MPEG-2 file in DVD2AVI and create a project.
Convert the project with VFAPIconv to a fake avi.
Open that in VirtualDub, add the flip-vertical filter and start the frameserver.
Load the *.vdr into your favorite MPEG encoder (for example TMPG)
Avisynth with mpeg2dec plugin:
Open the MPEG-2 file in DVD2AVI and create a project.
Write a sript with notpad as follows
LoadPlugin("c:\..path..\MPEG2DEC.DLL")
mpeg2source("d:\..path..\filename.d2v")
FlipVertical

Save it as filename.avs and load it into your favorite MPEG encoder.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/DVDConversionGuide/index.php?id=dvdtovcd2c.html#DVD2AVI
http://www.vcdhelp.com/DVDConversionGuide/index.php?id=dvdtovcd2a.html#VFAPI
http://www.vcdhelp.com/faq.htm#frameserver
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/tmpg-main.htm
http://www.horizon.nl/~michel/uk/default.htm
http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcdtools.htm
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/d2a-mpeg2dec.htm

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Truman on 2002-01-12 20:04:26 ]</font>

[JStyle]

Why don't you just turn the monitor/television upside down?

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: JStyle on 2002-01-12 22:26:44 ]</font>

[CHyRO]

Upside down video in WMP8 using Xp is a known problem to solve it try

WM8/ Tools/ Options/Performance/Advanced/Uncheck "Use Video Mixing Renderer

I think this works

[drewpydog]

Thanks, CHyRO, I had the same prob and your fix worked great. Now if I could only get the audio synced in WMP8....

[jondough]

thanks and this solved the problem with mediaplayer but powerDVD is still inverted. it was not so before i loaded the codecs after reloading xp. so there must be a global solution that fixes the problem instead of fixing it by defeating features in each program.

[jondough]

realized that the problem is that avi are inverted in all players, mpg play just fine.
running xp
thanks