thanks Phil. On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:51:37 -0700, Phil Ehrens wrote:
>> Does anyone know if VCDs are interlaced? All DVDs, no matter PAL or NTSC >> formats, are all interlaced, correct? > > VCD's are interlaced... I thought so. Hmm, that means the traditional transcode agent mpeg2enc doesn't support VCD creating then, since VCDs are encoded as MPEG-1. correct? Ref: **ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Interlaced encoding (-I != 0) is not supported by MPEG-1. > Many recent NTSC dvd's are progressive 24fps, but a surprising number of > NTSC dvd's are interlaced... hmm... I read "even non-interlaced video will be written interlaced on the dvd" [1], now I've confirmed that it is wrong. Progressive 24fps? interesting, any luck to have burnt such DVD anyone? How did you do that, say we are converting from a 23.976fps avi? I remember when tried encoding without pulldown, I get the following when doing the dvdauth: not a valid DVD frame rate: 24000.0/1001.0 (NTSC 3:2 pulldown converted FILM) thanks [1]avi to dvd converter http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=295947