HDTV movie (TS) -> XviD

[Flux]

- Total 9 GiB movie splitted to three TS-files with AC3 sound.
- 1920x1088i although DGindex claims it's progressive. Last eight pixels on the bottom are grey so I cropped them away.
- Video type is film but frame rate shows 29.97 fps
- Movie length is about 105 minutes

This movie should be compressed to single layer DVD±R disc. Resizing it to 1280x720p because at least in here higher resolution displays for home theaters are very rare and expensive. What I should do with frame rate? Should film be 23.976 fps and not 29.97 fps? How I convert it to ~ 24 fps?

So what settings you would recommend like what matrix? And what Avisynth processes? Single or 2-pass? VHQ mode?

[neuron2]

If it's truly interlaced then just leave it at 29.97. If it is telecined, you can either just leave it at 29.97 and encode as hard telecined, or you can IVTC it back to 23.976. Decomb is one option for IVTC.

If you are authoring to DVD, why are you in this forum? For DVD you need to encode in MPEG2. Does your player play Xvid and you'll just put it there as a data file?

[Flux]

Originally posted by neuron2
If you are authoring to DVD, why are you in this forum? For DVD you need to encode in MPEG2. Does your player play Xvid and you'll just put it there as a data file?
I use DVD to store XviD as data file because I'm using HTPC

[neuron2]

OK. Then you need to determine if the content is telecined or not, and apply IVTC if it is.

[Flux]

Added this to Avisynth script and 29.97 -> 23.976 worked fine :cool:

Telecide(order=1,guide=1).Decimate(cycle=5)

I would be glad if someone bothers to recommend some matrix for my encode. Average bitrate should be around 5000-6000 kbps for video. Searched some posts and it seems that low bitrate matrix is good with Q2 when compressing HDTV materials to single DVD with XviD but what low bitrate matrix? There is so many of them. :confused:

I'm only asking your opinion. ;)