Pal -> Ntsc?

Screwdriver · 17th February 2002, 20:28

First off, I must say that DVD2SVCD is amazing. The time it saves is unreal.

I recently purchased a region 2 DVD, and I live in California. My now region-hacked player (AD-1500) plays the disc fine, but everything is a little squished – I assume because the source was meant for PAL. This is the first PAL source I have worked with.

Last night I did a dvd2svcd run on the disc. As expected, the SVCDS created looked beautiful. Fortunately, the source does not seem to require any deinterlacing. Anyway, I guess as expected, the video stream was encoded in the same aspect ratio. The SVCD's look squished on my NTSC TV just as the DVD does. If I open the MPEG in WMP it looks fine. I did notice that in "properties" it says that the clip is 768 x 576, while all the others I have open in WMP have said that they were 640x480. (but they are supposed to be 480x480? *shrug*)

I am relatively new to the SVCD process, and have had a difficult time understanding "AVS scripts" and the frameserving process.

Is there something simple I can do to change the resolution / aspect ratio of the outputted SVCD so it looks correct on my TV?

Thanks in advance for any responses. I must say that this forum is awesome. This is obviously my first post, but I have read countless threads in the past, and they have been very helpful.

If this topic is covered in the guides or the FAQ's I sincerely apologize – I have tried to read each of them thoroughly.

gerti67 · 18th February 2002, 12:38

Hello Screwdriver,

this is a difficult task and not (yet) possible with dvd2svcd doing it automatically.

You have to do it manually with some programs. Have a look at what markrb posted to saber's question in the following thread:

http://rilanparty.com/vbb/showthread...threadid=16934

Hope this helps a little,
Gerti

Screwdriver · 18th February 2002, 21:38

Thanks for the reply.

I did some searches and finally came up with the thread markrb mentioned.

It looks like a pain

I have never succesfully frameserved to CCE w/tmpegenc or virtualdub - No matter how I setup it up CCE always gets an error and closes. All other programs open the frameserve just fine. Oh well.

I tried simply changing the bicubicresize in the AVS script - the aspect ratio is now correct, but the film is all skippy

(but only on my console!

)

I guess I could just use TMPEG... that's what I started out using... Then I saw a 4 pass CCE encode. What a difference.

I guess I will just have to live with squished heads for now.

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Screwdriver Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 5	Pal -> Ntsc? First off, I must say that DVD2SVCD is amazing. The time it saves is unreal. I recently purchased a region 2 DVD, and I live in California. My now region-hacked player (AD-1500) plays the disc fine, but everything is a little squished – I assume because the source was meant for PAL. This is the first PAL source I have worked with. Last night I did a dvd2svcd run on the disc. As expected, the SVCDS created looked beautiful. Fortunately, the source does not seem to require any deinterlacing. Anyway, I guess as expected, the video stream was encoded in the same aspect ratio. The SVCD's look squished on my NTSC TV just as the DVD does. If I open the MPEG in WMP it looks fine. I did notice that in "properties" it says that the clip is 768 x 576, while all the others I have open in WMP have said that they were 640x480. (but they are supposed to be 480x480? shrug) I am relatively new to the SVCD process, and have had a difficult time understanding "AVS scripts" and the frameserving process. Is there something simple I can do to change the resolution / aspect ratio of the outputted SVCD so it looks correct on my TV? Thanks in advance for any responses. I must say that this forum is awesome. This is obviously my first post, but I have read countless threads in the past, and they have been very helpful. If this topic is covered in the guides or the FAQ's I sincerely apologize – I have tried to read each of them thoroughly.

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gerti67 Reloaded! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The Matrix Posts: 824	Hello Screwdriver, this is a difficult task and not (yet) possible with dvd2svcd doing it automatically. You have to do it manually with some programs. Have a look at what markrb posted to saber's question in the following thread: http://rilanparty.com/vbb/showthread...threadid=16934 Hope this helps a little, Gerti __________________ "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." - Robert Wilensky, University of California, 1997

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18th February 2002, 21:38	#3 \| Link
Screwdriver Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 5	Thanks for the reply. I did some searches and finally came up with the thread markrb mentioned. It looks like a pain I have never succesfully frameserved to CCE w/tmpegenc or virtualdub - No matter how I setup it up CCE always gets an error and closes. All other programs open the frameserve just fine. Oh well. I tried simply changing the bicubicresize in the AVS script - the aspect ratio is now correct, but the film is all skippy (but only on my console! ) I guess I could just use TMPEG... that's what I started out using... Then I saw a 4 pass CCE encode. What a difference. I guess I will just have to live with squished heads for now.