Rental DVD to SVCD

[DazJWood]

Is there some weird encoding used for rental dvds because whenever I have tried in the past to encode one it has alsorts of weird problems.

I recently purchased an ex-rental dvd which when ripping it and running it through DVD2AVI it reported it as being 20fps. Is this correct?

No matter how I have tried to encode it, it will not work properly. I have tried DVD2SVCD which when it gets to the video encoding part it comes up with an illegal floating point error.

If I try to encode with tmpenc manually (not through DVD2SVCD) I cannot get the ratio right. It is stretched no matter what I seem to do plus the video is jerky (more evident on pan shots).

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks in advance,

Daz

[zodiac]

rentals are the same as the ones you buy new.
you get 20fps because its PAL.

taken from http://www.doom9.org/ useing DVD2AVI

Frame Rate = 25.000 fps: your source is PAL. If the frame type is Interlaced, start the preview again and watch closely if you see no horizontal black lines going through the picture then the frames are actually progressive and you're already done here. If there are such black lines, try changing the field order by selecting Video - Field Operation - Swap Field Order and run the preview again. If you can still see horizontal lines reset the Field Operation to None, otherwise leave it as it is.

Frame Rate = 20.000 fps: your source is PAL and you have Forced Film activated. Set Field Operations to None to get the correct framerate.

Frame Rate = 29.970 fps: Let the preview run for a couple of minutes, then take a look at the Video Type: If it's FILM at a percentage higher or equal to 95% or if it only shows FILM you can activate Forced FILM as shown below. Otherwise you will have to perform IVTC (that process will be explained later on).

Frame Rate = 23.976 fps: This is the result of activating Forced FILM for an NTSC movie. If the Video Type is FILM or FILM at a percentage higher or equal to 95% you're all set. If the percentage is lower or the type is NTSC then you have to set Field Operation to None and perform IVTC (that process will be explained later on).

[DazJWood]

Thanks for that. That's the frame rate sorted.

Anyone know about the aspect ratio??

By the way you said rentals are the same as the ones you buy. hmmm. I'd have to disagree with that one. Yes they should be and in most cases are. But I have had a DVD that is specifically a rental DVD (no extras, etc...) and the files amount to 3 Gb. Then the sell-through version has come out and the movie is larger, 7Gb (discluding the extras). I don't know whether this is because they encode some films at lower bitrates or maybe because they don't have numerous language soundtracks on. But this goes to prove that not all rentals are the same as the sell through.

Daz