TMPGEnc Frame Rate Problem

[rendez2k]

Over a year ago I posted a problem about TMPGEnc 3.0 not getting the frame rate right on source AVIs (some 25fps AVIs show as 30, checked in GSpot) resulting in a bad and jerky encode or just very slow as it tries to convert 30fps back to 25! Now I thought I'd sorted it by installing ffdshow, but now it refuses to load any XviD/DivX files with that installed! What codecs do other people use to give the proper frame rate value? I now currently have DivX 6 installed.

[Paulcat]

This is an issue with TMPGEnc itself. Since DVD playback requires a framerate of 29.97, it will duplicate frames to fill in the extra frames needed from a 23.976 or 25 fps source. With repeated frames comes jerky video.

I'd go back to TMPGEnc Plus, you can make a proper encoding and apply pulldown to get 29.97 fps after you are done.

I have had no luck with FFDShow, especially with XviD installed at the same time. I just stick to Xvid on it's own now, and AC3Filter..

[geoffman]

I usually framserve to TMPGenc with avisynth, this gets rid of any cases where TMPGenc gets the framerate wrong.

When I use the above approach I demux the audio from the video and load it up into TMPGenc.

[Paulcat]

That's why I prefer using TMPGEnc Plus rather than TMPGEnc Xpress (which looks nicer but does not perform as well).