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

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:37:30AM -0800, RC wrote:
> 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.

it won't get 'removed' anyway. the video quality will just get
destroyed if you don't treat the content VERY CAREFULLY.

you really need to READ and LEARN what you're doing before you try
this..

rich