Swin
11th June 2003, 12:17
Hi,
Maybe this will help someone else in the same situation. I spent a good few hours last night trying to convert an AVI file to VCD with NTSC to PAL converstion. The original AVI file had a video resolution of 512*384 and a fame rate of 29.970 fps - or at least thats what AVICodec reported.
AVI2VCD complained that the frame rate wasn't suported and that a conversion would be made. On closer scrutiny the frame rate of the AVI was actually 29.971 fps - I thought what the hell, surely 0.001 fps can't make that big a difference right? Wrong. BeSweet caused a GPO when trying to encode this file. After much reading of "Similar" problems I found that BeSweet would encode given a specific command line or if NTSC to PAL conversion was turned off.
At some silly time in the morning I then decided to run the AVI through VirtualDub and convert the frame rate from 29.971 to 29.970. This had no effect on the file or audio synch but now BeSweet dosn't crash.
So the lesson learned is - take the error message that DVD2SVCD gives you to heart - especially when concerning frame rate.
Chris
Maybe this will help someone else in the same situation. I spent a good few hours last night trying to convert an AVI file to VCD with NTSC to PAL converstion. The original AVI file had a video resolution of 512*384 and a fame rate of 29.970 fps - or at least thats what AVICodec reported.
AVI2VCD complained that the frame rate wasn't suported and that a conversion would be made. On closer scrutiny the frame rate of the AVI was actually 29.971 fps - I thought what the hell, surely 0.001 fps can't make that big a difference right? Wrong. BeSweet caused a GPO when trying to encode this file. After much reading of "Similar" problems I found that BeSweet would encode given a specific command line or if NTSC to PAL conversion was turned off.
At some silly time in the morning I then decided to run the AVI through VirtualDub and convert the frame rate from 29.971 to 29.970. This had no effect on the file or audio synch but now BeSweet dosn't crash.
So the lesson learned is - take the error message that DVD2SVCD gives you to heart - especially when concerning frame rate.
Chris