Authored videos play too fast?

[one_someone]

Hello all,

I have another question...

I am backing up three music video DVD's to 1 DVDR.

All the videos off the first and second DVD play fine on the newly authored DVDR, however all the videos from the third DVD play waaay too fast. It's like they're playing at about 130% of the speed they're supposed to be playing at.

My process is:

1) Rip each vid with DVDDecrypter (chapter by chapter with Stream Processing keeping just the vid and main .ac3 audio file)
2) Frameserve with DVD2AVI (extracting audio to .wav)
3) Convert to VCD with TMPGEnc (using VCD template)
4) Author with TDA (allowing it to convert the audio to 48000)
5) Burn with TDA's burner (I also tried Copy2DVD).

Other details: Total project is 4309 MB's and I'm burning to Ritek G04 DVD-R's.

What setting/flag/step am I missing here to not have these converted correctly? What causes the files to play so fast?

Thanks!!

[Dimmer]

Check your framerate settings. Maybe your source is 25fps PAL or 23.97fps NTSC film, and you're trying to encode it using 29.97fps NTSC template. An easy way to check MPEG file properties in TMPGEnc is to open the file in MPEG Tools - Demultiplex window.

[one_someone]

Thank you for your response.

This is an NTSC video (Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits?) and I'm pretty sure that it is 29.97, not 23.97. When I used DVD2AVI, I'm pretty certain it also recognized the video as NTSC. I'll double check that when I get home.

The interesting thing is that both the video AND audio play at a too-fast rate.

What I'm really curious about is what controls this? Is it something in the VOB/Cell ID that is not being ripped out by DVD Decrypter? Is it something I've missed in my encoding? (although I've made several DVD's using this method) My experience tells me that TMPGEnc will match the audio rate to the video rate to sync the file and give a good mpeg... So I'm thinking this is a problem that has its roots in the video stream. Would you concur?

Thanks again.