Progressive or Not ?

[erwan]

i'm trying to cce encode star wars, pal version.
bitrate viewer tells me :
dct type : field
pic structure : frame.

my question is then : is this interlaced or progressive?

or more particularly, in cce, should i check progressive frame or not?

thx,

Erwan

a dumb question :
when i needed to re encode a movie to fit it on a dvd-5,
i uses to lower the bitrate with rempeg.
but it would take about 30 hours (on a p3/600) and quality would not be that good under 75%.
so i decided to give cce a try, and there it takes me 5h, quality is awesome and file is way smaller than the one generated by rempeg !

i understand how rempeg works, but there with cce i'm quite lost !
what is the trick? for i dont seem to lower the bitrate ?

[Pauly]

Any source that was shot on film like "Star Wars" will be progressive even if it is transfered to interlaced video, since the two fields that make up a frame of video will actually be identical images of the same frame of the film.

Therefore select progressive in CCE.

Cheers Paul