Something went wrong with a NTSC PAL conversion

[Talayero]

Hi,

I have a ntsc dvd I want to convert to pal.
It's 99.48% film and progressive, according to dgindex.

I used this script with CCE:

LoadPlugin("D:\DGDecode.dll")
Mpeg2Source("my film.d2v")
LanczosResize(720,576)
ConvertToYUY2

I configured cce to zigzag, progressive, frame rate 23.976 and without ticking the pulldown box.

Then I used the program DGPulldown to change the resulting mpv file. I used the option: Custom: 23.976 to 25.

The thing I think is weird is that the resulting mpv file and also the pulldowned m2v are both video 100%. I happened to load them in dgindex and it says that they are video. I don't understand it. Is that normal or did I make a mistake and something went wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[Guest]

Everything is fine. The measure DGIndex uses to give video versus film percentage consists of examining the pulldown flags and reporting what percentage of the clip has pure 3:2 pulldown (23.976 -> 29.97). Because you are using a different pulldown pattern (23.976 -> 25) it will be reported as video. The film percentage is intended to guide the user in deciding if force film is appropriate, and force film is for undoing only 3:2 pulldown.

[scharfis_brain]

Donald, could you add a text output (maybe located near the video/film percentage) where the current and average framerate of the raw encoded frames gets displayed?

[Guest]

Do you mean in the info dialog?

[scharfis_brain]

yeah exactly.

[Guest]

It's doable. Let me think about the best way to present it and then make a proposal. How long would you want the period for the current metric to cover? Same as for bitrate?

[scharfis_brain]

Either set this 'current' metric temporal window to the size of the one of the current bitrate, or make the temporal span of this window optional.