Hi everybody,
I have trouble with transcoding a h264 file into a DVD-Video compatible mpeg2 file.
The h246 source file aspect ratio prefererences are as follows:
Display Aspect Ratio (DAR) = 5/4
Storage Aspect Ratio (SAR) = 1/1
Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) = 5/4
The transcoded mpeg2 file gives the following aspect ratio preferences:
Display Aspect Ratio (DAR) = 4/3
Storage Aspect Ratio (SAR) = 16/15
Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) = 5/4
As a result, the transcoding process leads to a horizontally stretched and blurred pictures. Please have a look on the screenshots I have made.
How can I overcome this problem? I just want to keep the movie file in the same shape but It should be compatible with the DVD-Video standard. Maybe it has something to do with the SAR value, right?
I am using a trial version of Adobe Media Encoder CC for the transcoding process. Besides, I own the macOS app called "ff-works", which is a GUI environment for the open source command line tool "ffmpeg".
Many thanks in advance and blessed holidays,
Paul
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Your source is obviously a 720x576 ITU cap that's encoded improperly as 5:4 DAR. It should be 4:3 DAR. Even so, AME did the conversion "properly", the way a professional DVD would be made from an ITU cap. The wider picture is how the original video was supposed to look.
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Thanks for your replies!
@Flashandpan007
yes, This is digitised data from old VHS (PAL) tapes, by using a hardware h264 converter box (AverMedia Game Capture HDII).
Als follows, the data from MediaInfo:
1) from the h264 source file
Code:Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41) File size : 169 MiB Duration : 4mn 36s Overall bit rate : 5 136 Kbps Writing application : Lavf57.71.100 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : Main@L4.1 Format settings : CABAC / 2 Ref Frames Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 4mn 36s Bit rate : 4 998 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 576 pixels Display aspect ratio : 5:4 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 50.000 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Interlaced Scan type, store method : Separated fields Scan order : Top Field First Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.241 Stream size : 165 MiB (97%) Codec configuration box : avcC Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC LC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity Codec ID : mp4a-40-2 Duration : 4mn 36s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Frame rate : 46.875 fps (1024 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 4.21 MiB (2%) Default : Yes Alternate group : 1
2) from the transcoded mpeg2 DVD-Video file
Code:Format : MPEG-PS File size : 141 MiB Duration : 4mn 36s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 4 274 Kbps Video ID : 224 (0xE0) Format : MPEG Video Format version : Version 2 Format profile : Main@Main Format settings : BVOP Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, Matrix : Default Format settings, GOP : M=2, N=12 Format settings, picture structure : Frame Duration : 4mn 36s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 3 997 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 9 000 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 576 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate : 25.000 fps Standard : PAL Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Interlaced Scan order : Bottom Field First Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.386 Time code of first frame : 00:00:00:00 Time code source : Group of pictures header GOP, Open/Closed : Open GOP, Open/Closed of first frame : Closed Stream size : 132 MiB (94%) Audio ID : 192 (0xC0) Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 2 Duration : 4mn 36s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 192 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Frame rate : 41.667 fps (1152 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 6.32 MiB (4%)
@ jagabo
This was also my initial thought, but the more I look at the results (I digitised about 30 tapes), the more I am convinced they are unnaturally stretched. Is there any method to check it?
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Find something of a known aspect ratio and measure it on screen. Like the tire of a car viewed directly from the side, a window of known dimensions, a photograph of a person in the video taken from the same angle, etc.
But given the size of the black borders on the left and right of the frame, the half black line at the top of the frame and the head switching noise at the bottom, it's almost certain that you have an cap that conforms to the ITU spec. -
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