Frame Rates Differ when combining avi's

[jcrompton]

I have been ripping DVD's and then converting them to avi files for use on my home media server. It plays the avi format much better!

For most DVD's I just want the main movie; however, with my children's DVD's it is better to basically have the entire thing minus a few things. One way I have done this a few times is to allow AutoGK to make a differnt avi file for each of the ifo's and the use VirtualDub to re combine the avi files into one. This has worked several times. However with this last attempt I got two different errors when trying to combine the avi files:
1) the size was different 720 X 480 vs 720 X 520
2) the frame rates were different 23.9 vs 29

However both avi files were created with the same settings (basic and advanced).

Any ideas on how to get the avi files that are created to have the same size and / or the same frame rate?
Or, not being set on how I'm doing things, any other ideas on how to create one larger avi file for the majority of the contents of a DVD?

Thanks
(sorry for the long post)

[manono]

Hi-

Are you sure it gave you a 720x480 result? That's so rare as to border on the impossible. Are you sure you haven't done anything funny in the Hidden Options? Do you have a log to confirm that?

No, you can't make the framerates the same, not and have one or the other not play jerky or stuttery. That partly depends on how they were analyzed by AutoGK, though. Check in the Hidden Options to give them both the same framerate, encode them, and then check to see if the results bother you or your children.

My best suggestion is to set up a playlist using a player, such as BSPlayer, that can use playlists. Then they'll play one after the other.

[iNFO-DVD]

the frame rates were different 23.9 vs 29
That's going to happen a lot, completely normal. As you're using different IFO sets then your main movie is most probably the 23.976FPS AVI but the chances are all the extra's, behind the scenes, interview e.t.c. are going to be 29.970FPS.

[jcrompton]

Any ideas from the group on how to accomplish what I'm trying to do - I have a D-Link Media Server that I have attached to my TV (my 2 year old watches all during the day) and networked. It will play .vob files but it handles the .avi files so much better and often the original .vob files will have bit rates of over 5000 (many times as much as 9000) and the Media Server doesn't handle that well either.

So ... it would be best, in this case, to have the entire DVD (extras and all) as one big .avi file. Any ideas on how to make it happen easily?

Thanks