[MEncoder-users] Encoded DVD's appear too short

[RC]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:35:17 -0600
Ben Nemec <nemecb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, I thought DVDs had to have a framerate of 30000/1001?  

No, you can also use 24000/1001 with 3:2 pulldown ("-mpegopts
telecine").

> I'm not sure  whether the input is interlaced or not (sorry, kind of
> ignorant about this),  


> However, I've reencoded it to regular MPEG4 to get  rid of the
> commercials and get it in a more widely supported format.  I would 
> assume the interlacing gets removed during the MPEG4 encode, 

MPEG-4 supports interlacing, so there's no guarantee.