[MEncoder-users] Encode a NTSC film to a PAL vcd

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:54:51PM +0100, Roger Andreassen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to put a NTSC film to view on vcd in western europe (PAL, 
> Scandinavia).
> 
> First thing I did an .avi conversion in 640x360 for the 1.78 aspect and 
> -ofps=25. I think I did wrong here with the fps but I realized this.
> 
> Then with mencdvd I did
> 
> ./mencdvd the4400 the4400.avi -noburn
> 
> so I could inspect the result before spending time writing the CD. The 
> mencvcd script only fits 58 minutes on the 800 megs, then if I start "-ss 
> 58:00" it's off by two minutes and the sound is a little unsynced when I to 
> the next CD.
> 
> I'd be happy to show my mencoder line. Does vcd really care about the NTSC 
> origin or will I take¨better care of this (telecine, detc, 23.96 fps and 
> such)?

If you're converting framerate and using mpeg output, you really MUST
use the harddup filter. In fact you should probably always use the
harddup filter when doing anything related to mpeg/vcd/dvd output.

Rich