CCE framerate problem?

[Mazze]

I'm trying to reencode Southpark. It's a PAL version wich of course has a framerate of 25fps.
So far so good.

Followed the doom9 guide:
I've created a DVD2AVI project.
Then I used Avisynth & mpeg2dec to frameserve it.
To finally import it to CCE 2.50 and encode it at 4pass VBR.

Now I'm trying to reauthor it in Maestro with its original AC3 soundtrack. But when looking at it now the movie has been shrunk to aprox. 83% of it's original length. (from 87min to 72)

I'm sure this is an NTSC problem, no doubt as it seems as if the movie got mistaken for 29,976fps and then converted down to 25fps or something like that...
But where did I screw it up?

When I'm looking in the programs to see where it forgot to set some parameter about PAL and NTSC I can't find any of them. Can't PAL titles be done this way? do I have to frameserve with VFAPI instead?

[TRILIGHT]

I've not worked with PAL titles so I'm not quite sure where you went wrong. First, check the framerate that DVD2AVI reports so that you are sure you are aware of what the original framerate is. You might also want to look into using pulldown.exe to see if it helps anything for you. In your case you would use:

pulldown.exe input.mpv output.m2v -nopulldown -framerate 25 -prog_frames p

[Cayne]

Pulldown is useless for PAL. Cause all material is 25 fps.
They make a speedup of about 4,66666666 % on film-sources to match the framerate.

[Mazze]

Ran the same movie with vfapi instead and now things looks great.

It must have been avisynth that screwed it up, maybe som custom command that needed to be inserted. Strange...