Help me please!!

[alexkathy]

I am trying to convert a DVD to a VCD. I followed the intrustions from a guide I found on the internet. I used roxio easy CD creator to burn in onto a disk. Everything seemed to work fine until I played it in my DVD player. It played like it was in slow motion, very choppy and the sound was choppy as well. I don't know what I did wrong! Please help me. Written below are the steps I followed, so you could know everything I did. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, or what I'm doing at all for that matter, so if you reply, could you speak to me like I know nothing? Thanks!

I used cladDVD to rip the movie, then TMPGEnc. I loaded the video source and audio source, clicked on the LOAD button and chose VideoCD (NTSC).mcf. Next I clicked the SETTING button and clicked on the advance tab and double clicked on deinterlace, went to an "action" part of the movie and then chose 'Even-Odd field (field)' from the method drop down list and made sure the 'enable filter' box was checked. Then I moved the movie forward to check to see if the movie was jerky and followed intstructions to eradicate that and get the right 'field order'. Next I checked for 'Interlacing Artefacts' in our picture. I went back to 'Deinterlace' and double-clicked it. I Un-ticked the box that says 'Enable filter'. Then used 'Back-Frame', 'Forward-Frame' and 'Slide Bar' controls to start moving the movie, and went to different sections of the movie, and it told me if you see strange lines in the film then the source is 'Interlaced', if you can't see these lines then we'll treat it as Non-Interlaced. then it told me how to correct it. Next I double-clicked 'Clip Frame'. Clicked 'Default', used the slider to get to a bright part of the film. Using the 'Top', 'Bottom', 'Left' and 'Right' input boxes removed all the black edges, clicked OK and made sure that option (Clip Frame) is ticked. Then I picked 16:9 as the source aspect ratio. Then I clicked on the audio tab, and bumped up the volume to 200% and made sure audio edit was checked. Then I selected the 'Video' tab and changed 'Motion Search Precision' to High Quality (slow). I got the file into the output box and pressed start on TMPGEnc. Later I split it into two parts so I could fit it on two CD-Rs. I just followed all the instructions from the clonead.cjb.net website (DVDtoVCD).

I don't know what I have done wrong. I have tossed two cd's now cause the same thing happened and I don't know where I'm going wrong. I don't even know how to check it before I burn it to make sure it's going to work. Please let me know if you have any ideas of what I can try. Also, if you have read this far, thank you so much for your time!

Alex

[poopyhead]

wut video type does dvd2avi indicate the source video (info box) is? is it NTSC, interlaced or FILM, progressive?

FILM, progressive =>enable force film in dvd2avi and use the NTSC FILM template (not NTSC template) in tmpgenc

NTSC, interlaced => disable force film in dvd2avi and use the NTSC template in tmpgenc

as for tmpgenc:

SOURCE VIDEO SETTINGS: source aspect ratio is either 16:9 525 line NTSC or 4:3 525 line NTSC...(assuming you ripped region 1 NTSC dvd)..this will be stated by dvd2avi's info box

image positioning method: full screen (preserve aspect ratio)

OUTPUT VIDEO SETTINGS: 4:3 DISPLAY, NTSC
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as for filters, don't use any....dunno why you are bothering with filters right away....wut you should do is encode it w/o filters and look at the .mpg file you created for any problems..if you see any, re-encode w/ the necessary filters

also, for the de-interlace filter, it shouldn't be necessary to begin with...not forcing film on something that is FILM could result in interlaced lines......conversly, forcing film on something that is NTSC will definitely result in interlaced lines...so make sure you get it straight