I have been burning many backup dvd's with no problem. I am using Verbatim1-8x dvds and have no coasters. I have recently found some movies that I have downladed from the internet. When I burn those the play fine on my pc but on my standalone Pioneer dv343 it comes up black and white and the is a rolling bar going thru it?????? Kinda of like trying to get a local channel in from a atenaa. anyone have any ideas????? I dont need anymore black and white coasters.
My guess - your video could be in the PAL format. That's why you can view it on your PC just fine. Your Pioneer 343 and your TV will only process an NTSC signal. Check out the properties of the video before you burn it to see if it's PAL or not.
Open the VOB in Virtualdub. You should be able to check out the file properties there. It will be under File/File Information. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_capture_tools/virtualdub.cfm
virtual dub gives me a error when I try to open them. lets assume they are pal is there a way to convert them to NTSC?
Try the version of virtualdub at the link below. I should have specified virtualdubmod, sorry. This version should handle VOB files with no problem. http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_tools/virtualdubmod.cfm In Virtualdubmod, under File/File Information, if the Frame Size shows up as 720x576 and the fps is 25.000 then it's PAL. NTSC would read 720x480 with an fps of 29.970. If it is PAL, yes, you can convert it to NTSC. It takes a few steps though and can take a bit of patience. Basically you'll have to demux the audio out (TMPGEnc), then do a framerate conversion on the video from 25 fps to 29.97 (DGPulldown), then re-encode the video to get the vertical resolution to 480 (TMPGEnc), then re-mux the audio back in (TMPGEnc). But you'll want to verify that your video is actually PAL. That was my first guess but you want to confirm it. Your problem might be something else entirely. You can download a free trial version of TMPGEnc Plus here: http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/ http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=DGPulldown
ok it is pal format. i am going to try what you said. is there a guide for this or do I have to fly by the seat of my pants.....
a little more info the video is 720X576 at 25.000fps. i also have ten different vob, ifo and bup files taht make up this movie. any ideas on what gets converted and how to do it?
plug in 'pal to ntsc' in the 'search' function and you will get hits to a number of halpful threads on this subject, for example; http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/207123 and this one; http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/167922 Hope this helps in your case. regards
Everyone has a different way of doing this. This is what works for me. I only do a software conversion of PAL to NTSC as a last resort. The results are not always perfect, especially in high motion scenes. But most of the time I'm satisfied with the result. I'd recommend using Shrink to extract a small 1 or 2 minute clip from your VOB file first. Reauthor mode, then set start/stop points. Use that short clip to work through these steps the first time, to make sure everything is working for you so you don't waste a lot of time trying to re-encode a large file. You'll want TMPGEnc: http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/ TMPGEnc Author http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvdr_tools/tmpgenc_vd_author.cfm http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/advanced_tmpgenc_dvd_author_ uide.cfm DGPulldown http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=DGPulldown HeadAC3 http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mp2-hac3.htm Start TMPGEnc Plus, cancel out of the wizard. File, Mpeg Tools, Simple De-mux, Input, Browse and open your Vob file. You may have to select the *.* all files option to see the VOB. It should then fill the Video out and Audio out windows with an .m2v and an .ac3 file. Click Run. It will split the mpg into video (m2v) and audio (ac3) streams. Close when it's done. When it finishes de-muxing out the video and audio, in the TMPGEnc Plus main window, under Video Source, browse, open the .m2v file you just extracted. The audio Window should remain blank. I like to rename the output file to something like version2.m2v just to keep it separate from the original. The stream type sould be ES (video only). Click setting, stream type should be mpeg-2 video, under size change the second number from 576 to 480. Leave the frame rate alone at 25. Under rate control mode I like to use Constant Quality. On the setting button to the right of that move your quality slider up to around 90, set your max bit rate to 7000 and min to 2400. (Different people will have different preferences for these settings I know. Experiment, listen to other peoples suggestions). But for now don't change anything else. Click OK to close the Constant Quality window. At the bottom of the MPEG setting window you'll see a Motion search precision window. Select High Quality. Leave everything else alone. Click OK to close the Mpeg setting window. You should be back at the main window. Before you click start look in the lower left corner. Make sure it says Mpeg2 720x480 25 fps CQ 90 (or 100 if you set quality at 100). Click Start, you may see a pop-window saying "you are about to create an mpeg 2 etc.", click Continue. When it finishes exit TMPGEnc. The resolution on your version2.m2v file should now be 720x480. Now you have to change the framerate on this file to 29.97. Open DGPUlldown. Browse to the version2.m2v video file you just converted to 480. Select 25 ==> 29.97. Click Convert. This will create a .pulldown.m2v file which should now be at the correct frame rate for NTSC. Now for the audio. Open headaC3he. Source is the .ac3 file you demuxed earlier. Below the destination file you will see a Destination Format. Select mp2. Start. Close out when done. Now to put the video and audio back together. Start TMPGEnc again. Cancel the wizard. Under video source browse to the pulldown.m2v file that DGPulldown created. After it's loaded in the bottom left hand corner of TMPGEnc's window it should give you the video properties of Mpeg2 - 720x480 29.97 fps. If not, something went wrong and you'll need to backtrack to see what went wrong. If it's OK, then under Audio source open the mp2 file that HeadAC3he created. The output file name should now have an .mpg extension. Make sure stream type is System (video+Audio). Click Start in the upper left corner. This will take a while. When it's done you should have an mpeg2 in NTSC format which you can then author with TMPGEnc Author, then burn to DVD. Good luck.
I just spotted your earlier post about having 10 VOB files. You might want to use Shrink then do "open files" and open these DVD files. Use reathor mode and just work with the main movie. Hopefully that will cut it down to 4 or 5 VOB's. You'll have to convert each one from PAL to NTSC. This will be time consuming. After converting them all I *believe* (not 100% sure) you'll have to then create a new set of IFO and BUP files from these new VOB's. Maybe someone else can confirm if that's necessary or not. Use Vobedit and IFOedit and this guide if you need to do that http://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/120021.php Another option, after you open your orignal DVD files in Shrink is to go into edit/preference/output files and uncheck "split vob files into 1 gb chunks". Then you'll end up with one big VOB file when Shrink is done. Then you'll only have 1 VOB to convert to NTSC. (Make sure your file system is NTFS to handle the monster large VOB). For me, I'd prefer reathoring just the main movie, converting the 4 or 5 VOB's to NTSC separately and not creating 1 huge VOB (so it might take a few days!), then using Vobedit and Ifoedit to create a new set of DVD files. I'd be a little nervous about audio sync issues with all that re-encoding of 1 very long vob file. Good Luck.
this seems a bit overwhealming to do a conversion. why in the heck cant there be a simple preocess to this?
also something I have discovered is to burn all the tests to a rewriteable dvd to see if it will work. this saves more coasters!!
There's a lot of ways with PC software to convert between PAL and NTSC but none of them are really easy, and sometimes you get good results and sometimes not. Unless you have professional video equipment, for most people it's really not worth the time and effort. I have a CyberHome CH-DVD 300 DVD player that I picked up at Best Buy for $35. It plays any region DVD, PAL and NTSC. When I want to watch a PAL DVD, that's what I'll use. I rarely go through the trouble to convert anymore.
