Can you change the framerate in a m2v file?

[via_lactea]

I usually buy DVDs from USA or JAPAN (NTSC system) but I'm from Europe and my TV is PAL. With DVDMaestro I'm creating new PAL DVDs from my NTSC DVDs with new subtitles and new audio tracks. It's a very easy work, but I hate to recompress all to obtain a new PAL m2v file.

But few days ago I discovered something strange from a original PAL DVD. I checked it with SmartRipper and I saw that the video was NTSC 720x480. But the DVD was PAL Region-2. I'm sure the video was 25 fps, but the resolution was 720x480.

Maybe they used a tool to change the framerate from 23.973 to 25 in the m2v file and a program similar to DVDPatcher to use the NTSC resolution. I discovered long time ago four programs and they could change the framerate in a m2v file or in a VOB file (NTSC2FILM.exe, FILM2PAL.exe, FILM2NTSC.exe and PAL2FILM.exe) but they don't work at all. I can change the framerate from 23.97 to 29.97, or from 29.97 to 23.97 but I can't change the framerate from 23.97 to 25. Do you know any working tool? Do I need recompress the FILM m2v file to obtain a 25fps m2v file? The only thing I need is to change the framerate...

Thanks in advance (I'm sorry for my very bad english).

[via_lactea]

I've just discovered that the PULLDOWN program can change the framerate to 25 (I thought that it was an exclusive NTSC program). I'll try to change the m2v's framerate from 23.97 to 25 and I'll use the DVDPatcher program to fix the resolution in DVDMaestro. If you are interested in this conversion I'll post the results later.

[via_lactea]

Pulldown.exe don't work. The program changes the fps to 25 and with DVDPatcher you can hack the m2v file to a 720x576 resolution. With these changes in the m2v file you can import the video in DVDMaestro in a PAL proyect. But you can't work with the m2v file. If you check the m2v video's properties in DVDMaestro it shows that is a 25 fps video. But the resolutions stills in 720x480. Another strange mistake is the time of the m2v file. With 25 fps the time must be sorter.But DVDMaestro shows the same time in both videos(23.97fps & 25 fps).

Well, the only way to obtain a PAL video from a NTSC video is using an encoder tool like TMPGEnc. :sly:

[dvddarren]

I had a similar problem with maestro. I had a freshly converted PAL 720x576 video that once imported into maestro, it reported it to be 720x480 and said it was NTSC even though it was PAL 25fps.

I tried re-patching it with dvdpatcher to 720x576 yet maestro still reported it wrong.

Therefore I couldnt put it onto a PAL DVDR I was compiling.

maybe a bug in maestro :/