Re: [Encode2mpeg-users] Catching up 2 minutes on avi's

[Giacomo C. <co...@na...>]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:32:46PM +0200, Roger wrote:
> I'm trying to figure the behavior of -usespeed used to convert ntsc
> speed avi's to pal DVDs. In a 44 min avi length I'll get 42 minutes in
> DVD mpeg and the sound is slightly pitched up to sync with that. The avi
> plays in 23.976 fps.

That's exactly what usespeed is supposed to do. In order to not duplicate frames,
the avi is played/encoded at higher speed. This result in a shorter mpeg
with a little higher pitch.

> 
> It will probably go unnoticed to most people but the ring of a phone and
> musical stuff sound rancid.
> 
> encode2mpeg myth1.avi -o DVD-myth8 -n p -usespeed -a 3 -stdvid 7
> -nosplit -mpegonly
> 
> As Gentoo threw out mplayer-1.0_pre7 before 0.6.0 shipped I needed to go
> with -stdvid 7 in order to be able to mux. How would I do in order for
> the .avi and .mpeg to play the same speed, please?

Apart from not using usespeed :-), you can try the new PAL telecine 
capability (in Mpeg Mode) of encode2mpeg 0.6.0. If the avi is 23.976 fps,
use the options "-n p -vfr 1 -p" in your command line.

PAL telecined mpeg plays fine with mplayer, but I haven't tested them yet
with an hardware dvd player. If you do such test, please let me know the
results.

Regards
Giacomo