AVI frame rate question...

[Rhomulus]

I've been using FlaskMPEG to convert the files to AVI's, however, most of the time it's detecting a rate of 23.976 fps. When I get the finished product it looks the same as the DVD and works fine (no problems with Windows Media Player). I just wanted to know if there would be a problem with other players if I'm not using, say, a 29.97 fps...
I'm not all that interested in making the files compatable with a DVD player. I really just burn the AVI's to disk for watching later. Should I be trying to force a 29.97 frame rate or is there nothing wrong with 23.976???
If I DID want to make a DVD compatable disk out of them, then would I have to force the 29.97 fps and convert to an MPEG?? And with different fps, would that alter the size of the video and risk audio/video sync problems????

thanks,

Will

[manono]

Hi-

I just wanted to know if there would be a problem with other players

No

Should I be trying to force a 29.97 frame rate

No

If I DID want to make a DVD compatable disk out of them

Meaning what? Burning with a DVD burner for playing in a standalone DVD player?

And with different fps, would that alter the size of the video

Yes

and risk audio/video sync problems????

No

[Rhomulus]

unfortunately I don't have the money for the burner or the DVD blanks so no, I was speaking more about something like (MPEG-2 format I think????) that could be burned to a CD but still viewed in a DVD player. I've been hearing that this is possible...
I just wanted to know what specs had to be conformed to to make that possible...

[UHT]

yes, vcd and svcd

[manono]

Hi Again-yeah-SVCD is what you want. It has better quality than VCD. Doom9's Downloads Section has the software you want (probably DVD2SVCD). His Guides section has the guide for what you want. Be forewarned, though. Most, but by no means all standalone DVD players can play SVCDs.

[UHT]

a player which supports svcd often (although not always) has a svcd logo on the front of the machine, might be useful for finding out.

[Rhomulus]

thanks for all the feedback, guys. I'll give it all a shot.
I was just a little nervous about this AVI that I have from a DVD (Payback) that was only 530 MB. Usually I'm trying to get as much quality in before I go over 700MB but this was way under. The quality looks just as good as the original though. I used the same kinds of compression when I was doing Total Recall and the quality isn't ass good as that. (they're both about the same time and size I think)
I just wanted to be sure that the codec settings, fps, etc. wouldn't make the file bad for other people who might want to watch it.
I've been using the Mpeg-2 Low Motion codec and I was getting better quality video than when I used the DivX 4.12 one....