avi to dvd encoding problem? Please help....

[CaptainChaos]

Hi

I have an .avi I have encoded to dvd using 3 different encoding programs (don't laugh ... WinAvi, DvdSanta and D.I.K.O.).

When it is burnt (using Nero) to DVD and put in my standalone dvd player (which plays anything), teh picture is "rolling" ... ie. there are 4 "sections" of the film on the tv screen, all sort of rolling/flickering .....

The .avi is ....

23.976 fps ..... 576 x 312 (16:9), DX50
48000 hz, 128 kbps, MPEG layer-3

I have taken this as being NTSC.

Should I attempt to change the 576 x 312 to something else?

I cant get TMPGenc to work any more. Are there any other programs I can use to try to sort this out?

Any help gratefully received ....

Cheers,
Ian

[Blue_MiSfit]

you have to resize to 720x480 if you want to have a real DVD.

[CaptainChaos]

ok - will try that ........... not sure if the 3 programs I mentioned earlier will resize to that, but I'll give it a go ......... hopefully it works cos it does take a while to do it lol.

Any experience of which one gives the better results? (out of DvdSanta, WinAvi or D.I.K.O.)?

Cheers

[Mug Funky]

i haven't heard of any of these programs :(

try installing avisynth, then make a text file called "whatever.avs", and inside it put:


avisource("avi-i-want-to-turn-into-a-DVD.avi")
converttoyv12() # just in case it's not decoded to this already
lanczosresize(720,480)


this will resize to NTSC D1 size

load this file into an mpeg-2 encoder (may i suggest QuEnc? it's very cool - IMO better than TMPG, and it's all opensource) and robert's your father's brother. sound will come through too. make sure you set "16:9 anamorphic" in whatever encoding app you use, because the output from the script above will be anamorphic 16:9, and your DVD player will need to know this in order to display it properly.

the quality and speed of the resizing in avisynth is about as good as you're likely to find, in either free or commercial tools (premiere has the worst resizing i've ever seen in my looiife).

to get proper DVD compiance, you'll have to run pulldown.exe on the resulting m2v stream to get the framerate from 23.976 up to 29.97 FILM.

there should be guides and stuff around on how to use these programs (i've never ever used pulldown.exe, because i live in PAL land and there's no need for such things).

it's a learning curve to use these things, but i guarantee it's worth it.

[edit]

oopsy, this was for 4:3, not the 16:9 you've got. it's updated now.