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Fusione
27th January 2003, 12:00
Seems that I have messed my encoded Survivor episodes big time. I captured the episodes from TV to Pinnacle AVI and encoded them to MPEG2 (I've done the same thing for more than 100 episodes). Now whe I started to burn them on DVD all episodes flicker in motion scenes, so I think the field order has been set to upper field first instead of lower field first.

My question is:
Is it possibe to change this in the MPEG2 files without re-encoding or should I encode them again with lower field first setting? I don't have the original AVI files anymore so there will be quality loss if I encode them again.

Thank you for help!
ronnylov
27th January 2003, 16:52
Yes, it is possible to change field order without re-encoding.
You can do this with ReStream, look at this homepage: http://shh.dvdboard.de
Fusione
27th January 2003, 17:32
Thank you very much. I'll try that.
Matthew
27th January 2003, 23:55
You can also use pulldown or Darim Easy Changer :)
Fusione
28th January 2003, 00:16
One friendly person e-mailed me the Easy Changer and it worked perfectly! I don't know where to dl that but it was easy and good.

I had 7 x 43min episodes accidentally encoded with upper field first and now they're lower field and I can start burning. Thank you!
Matthew
28th January 2003, 01:03
As a matter of trivia, Darim Easy Changer is bundled with a 30 demo app of Darim's (can't remember the name). Fortunately the easy changer executable is unprotected :)