Video conversion stretched

[Anonymous]

I am trying to convert this very short clip to DVD with ConvertXToDVD but not matter what settings i use the result is stretched.
If i use the black bars it is stretched inside them. It is from an old camera Fuji A825

Here is media info

General
Complete name C:\Videos\*********.AVI
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 26.4 MiB
Duration : 47 s 0 ms
Overall bit rate : 4 709 kb/s

Video
ID : 0
Format : JPEG
Codec ID : MJPG
Duration : 47 s 0 ms
Bit rate : 4 613 kb/s
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 240 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 30.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:2
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.002
Stream size : 25.8 MiB (98%)
Title : FUJIFILM AVI STREAM 0100

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Unsigned
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 47 s 0 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 88.2 kb/s
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 11.024 kHz
Bit depth : 8 bits
Stream size : 506 KiB (2%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 1000 ms (30.00 video frames)
Interleave, preload duration : 1000 ms

I tried AVSTODVD but it stopped with message "process aborted". AVSTODVD says the AVI is a JPEG?

It says JPEG-4612 kbps-320x240- DAR 4.3 - 30fps -interlaced - 47 seconds -1410 frames

[sneaker]

"Stretched" how? You do realize every DVD must be anamorphic? On playback the player will resize e.g. 720x480 (1.5:1) to 4:3.

[Anonymous]

"Stretched" how? You do realize every DVD must be anamorphic? On playback the player will resize e.g. 720x480 (1.5:1) to 4:3.

The aspect ratio is wrong. The width of a car is too wide for its height

[davexnet]

Load the file into avstodvd and at the top codecs/build directshow filter graph.

Does it play? If not, you may not have a dshow codec enabled for mjpeg

[LMotlow]

320x240 is not valid for DVD, and neither is 30.00 fps. To follow-up sneaker's comments, all frame sizes for DVD are anamorphic. The frame rate for NTSC DVD is 29.97 fps, not 30. The encoder is trying to give you a valid DVD frame size and frame rate. Your original audio sampling rate isn't valid, either. It should be 48KHz.

Check the specs for PAL and NTSC DVD: https://www.videohelp.com/dvd#tech. The nearest legal frame size for your 320x240 original would be anamorphic 352x240, which will look stretched in an editor. After it's encoded for DVD at 4:3 DAR it will playback with the correct 4:3 image ratio. The encoder might try to make it the more standard DVD frame size of 720x480, I don't know. I don't use ConvertXtoDVD. But 320x240 won't work for DVD, no matter what software you use. Period.

[Anonymous]

Load the file into avstodvd and at the top codecs/build directshow filter graph.

Does it play? If not, you may not have a dshow codec enabled for mjpeg

yes it played

[davexnet]

Load the file into avstodvd and at the top codecs/build directshow filter graph.

Does it play? If not, you may not have a dshow codec enabled for mjpeg

yes it played

Post the AVStoDVD log

[Anonymous]

320x240 is not valid for DVD, and neither is 30.00 fps. To follow-up sneaker's comments, all frame sizes for DVD are anamorphic. The frame rate for NTSC DVD is 29.97 fps, not 30. The encoder is trying to give you a valid DVD frame size and frame rate. Your original audio sampling rate isn't valid, either. It should be 48KHz.

Check the specs for PAL and NTSC DVD: https://www.videohelp.com/dvd#tech. The nearest legal frame size for your 320x240 original would be anamorphic 352x240, which will look stretched in an editor. After it's encoded for DVD at 4:3 DAR it will playback with the correct 4:3 image ratio. The encoder might try to make it the more standard DVD frame size of 720x480, I don't know. I don't use ConvertXtoDVD. But 320x240 won't work for DVD, no matter what software you use. Period.

I am on PAL The sound does not matter it is only the sound of a car

[davexnet]

320x240 is not valid for DVD, and neither is 30.00 fps. To follow-up sneaker's comments, all frame sizes for DVD are anamorphic. The frame rate for NTSC DVD is 29.97 fps, not 30. The encoder is trying to give you a valid DVD frame size and frame rate. Your original audio sampling rate isn't valid, either. It should be 48KHz.

Check the specs for PAL and NTSC DVD: https://www.videohelp.com/dvd#tech. The nearest legal frame size for your 320x240 original would be anamorphic 352x240, which will look stretched in an editor. After it's encoded for DVD at 4:3 DAR it will playback with the correct 4:3 image ratio. The encoder might try to make it the more standard DVD frame size of 720x480, I don't know. I don't use ConvertXtoDVD. But 320x240 won't work for DVD, no matter what software you use. Period.

Ok thanks. I am on PAL The sound does not matter it is only the sound of a car

AT least as far as AVStoDVD is concerned, the source file does not matter, since it resizes the video and
resamples the audio as necessary.

[LMotlow]

The original is 30fps and the O.P. wants PAL DVD?
The sound doesn't matter?
...Curiouser and curiouser...
That white rabbit will be coming through here any time now.

I pass.

[davexnet]

The original is 30fps and the O.P. wants PAL DVD?
The sound doesn't matter?
...Curiouser and curiouser...
That white rabbit will be coming through here any time now.

I pass.

HI LMotlow,
AVStoDVD takes care of it using avisynth, it either does MotionProtectedFPS(25) or ChangeFPS(25),
quick and dirty but it works.

[Anonymous]

320x240 is not valid for DVD, and neither is 30.00 fps. To follow-up sneaker's comments, all frame sizes for DVD are anamorphic. The frame rate for NTSC DVD is 29.97 fps, not 30. The encoder is trying to give you a valid DVD frame size and frame rate. Your original audio sampling rate isn't valid, either. It should be 48KHz.

Check the specs for PAL and NTSC DVD: https://www.videohelp.com/dvd#tech. The nearest legal frame size for your 320x240 original would be anamorphic 352x240, which will look stretched in an editor. After it's encoded for DVD at 4:3 DAR it will playback with the correct 4:3 image ratio. The encoder might try to make it the more standard DVD frame size of 720x480, I don't know. I don't use ConvertXtoDVD. But 320x240 won't work for DVD, no matter what software you use. Period.

Ok thanks. I am on PAL The sound does not matter it is only the sound of a car

AT least as far as AVStoDVD is concerned, the source file does not matter, since it resizes the video and
resamples the audio as necessary.

i would have thought so I would have thought convertx would resize it too but it only resized the black bars

[LMotlow]

The original is 30fps and the O.P. wants PAL DVD?
The sound doesn't matter?
...Curiouser and curiouser...
That white rabbit will be coming through here any time now.

I pass.

HI LMotlow,
AVStoDVD takes care of it using avisynth, it either does MotionProtectedFPS(25) or ChangeFPS(25),
quick and dirty but it works.

Yep, we've seen many of those mutilations, and a flood of VH and Doom9 posts by people asking how to repair them, which ain't possible. O.P. doesn't have to wonder about 240 or 480 frame height -- looks like he's wondering about 352x288 or 720x576 now.

This could go on for a long time.

[Anonymous]

The original is 30fps and the O.P. wants PAL DVD?
The sound doesn't matter?
...Curiouser and curiouser...
That white rabbit will be coming through here any time now.

I pass.

no one is asking you to get involved

[Cornucopia]

You did, when you opened the thread.

You live in a PAL area? Well, you should still be able to play NTSC material (most PAL devices can).
Make it an NTSC dvd at 1/4D1 (352x240), 1/2D1 (352x480) or -most likely- full D1 (704 or 720x480), depending upon which authoring app you use. 1/4d1 is most natural strategy for this material, but lots of authoring apps don't know how to handling anything but full d1.
Either way, there should be stretching in the intermediate encode (if shown using square pixel rendering player), but no stretching once authored & played back with a proper player. And it should not have any letterboxing or pillarboxing.
Framerate should just be slowed down to 29.97. That way you will have no motion stuttering or interpolation issues, though you will need to time stretch you audio to compensate and stay in sync (it'll need to be resampled anyway).

What has already been told to you is how you should go. Whether you heed the advice is your choice. If a certain app won't play nice with your needs, either learn more about how to customize the settings, or do it manually (cli apps) or live with it looking wrong.

Scott

[LMotlow]

In more polite terms, ditto. I'm sure you'll figure it out with all the information given. DVD isn't a square-pixel format.

[Anonymous]

You did, when you opened the thread.

You live in a PAL area? Well, you should still be able to play NTSC material (most PAL devices can).
Make it an NTSC dvd at 1/4D1 (352x240), 1/2D1 (352x480) or -most likely- full D1 (704 or 720x480), depending upon which authoring app you use. 1/4d1 is most natural strategy for this material, but lots of authoring apps don't know how to handling anything but full d1.
Either way, there should be stretching in the intermediate encode (if shown using square pixel rendering player), but no stretching once authored & played back with a proper player. And it should not have any letterboxing or pillarboxing.
Framerate should just be slowed down to 29.97. That way you will have no motion stuttering or interpolation issues, though you will need to time stretch you audio to compensate and stay in sync (it'll need to be resampled anyway).

What has already been told to you is how you should go. Whether you heed the advice is your choice. If a certain app won't play nice with your needs, either learn more about how to customize the settings, or do it manually (cli apps) or live with it looking wrong.

Scott

i did not. i opened it to get constructive ideas not smart comments . both of you now on ignore. bye

[Anonymous]

I had to edit this file in Vegas and the resulting MPEG-4- in an mp4 container- can be converted with Convertxtodvd and not stretched. Has a big black border but that does not matter

[davexnet]

What file?
Why don't you post a sample?

[Anonymous]

What file?
Why don't you post a sample?

the file the OP is about