judgeing field order?

[wolfrider]

I have an old animated movie (the hobbit) that I am trying to get onto a vcd but for some reason when I open it in tmpge I get a box that comes up that says judgeing field order and I bar comes up and starts filling once it gets to 79% it freezes. No other movie I have converted has ever brought this box up and I've had more problems with movies but never seen this box. If I open it in vdub I dont even get the audio skew error and it is a 29.970, divx 5.0 codec audio layer 3 fraunhofer all stuff Ive dealth with before just that error.

Anyone know what it means or what might cause it?

[thefox149]

Are you saying that this film is Divx??? if so strip the audio out. Tmpgenc has problems with divx audio and divx in general me thinks.....

Read the guides on how to convert divx....the "Juding field order" is pretty much normal practise but it only come up for me when I am frameserving....


Hope that helps

[wolfrider]

yes it is divx and I have ripped the audio from it but when I use tmpge and the wizard pops up and I select video file it gives me the checking field order and freezes at 79%, Now on a new note I closed the wizard and set it up manually and boom boom it worked BUT for some reason it does not work on my dvd player its fine in the computer but not in the dvd player and the only thing I can see that is different from any other movie I have done is the frame size which is standard ntsc as far as the 29.976 goes but the size is 720 x 480. could this be a problem?

to recap I can play it on comp fine in original avi, the converted mpeg file, and the vcd file (using zplayer), but when I put it in dvd player sounds fine but picture is just garbled up.

[adam]

If you ever want to judge the field order of your source than try the method I list in my second post in this thread. https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=107662&highlight=field+order

wolfrider, your source is a divx. Its true that some of the recent mpeg4 codecs actually support interlacing, but there is really no reason why anyone would use it so basically any divx file that you are going to come across is going to be progressive. A progressive source has no fields, and thus no field order so it makes no difference what you set this to.

Also, you are making a VCD which uses mpeg1. Mpeg1 also does not support interlacing, well not really, so except in rare cases, your field order makes no difference here either.

I don't know why TMPGenc's Wizard is locking up, but my suggestion is to just not use it anyway, it really only makes things more complicated, IMO.

You are using a non-standard resolution so there is no guarantee that it will play in any dvd player. My suggestion to anyone just starting out with VCDs is to start by first making a compliant disk and making sure that you can at least get that to work. From there see how far away from the standard you are willing go, and how far your dvd player will let you go.