Bitrate Problems in TMPGEnc

[reboot]

Rejig is a very simple, yet powerful authoring app.
It also demuxes DVD's that reside on your hard drive (DVD Decrypter output). It joins vobs to one continuous movie, then saves it as m2v and ac3. It can also automatically adjust ac3 delay.

The DGPulldown method is (so far) 100% compatible. We have yet to find anyone, with any player, anywhere, that won't play these disks, but we're only claiming 99% just in case
Sonic Scenearist and DVDLab Pro, both accept these mpegs as compliant.

The key to using DGPulldown successfully, is to re-encode the file to the correct aspect ratio for your region. 720x480 NTSC, or 720x576 PAL, but DO NOT CHANGE the framerate during encoding.
Thus, if you have a PAL file, and you want NTSC, encode to 720x480 at 25fps. Run DGPulldown 25 -> 29.97fps.
Author the dgpulldown.mpg with your previously extracted audio.
Because there is no actual framerate conversion, there is no audio desync problem.

[BlackPearl]

So if I'm following this right, this amounts to a fix or "fake out" of the frame rate without a complete re-encoding of the entire audio and video steams.....THIS SOUNDS PROMISING .....just to clear things up for myself and everyone else that's learning out there in TV land...aspect ratio recoding is done in ReJig or TMPGE? Also are they any mods to be done on the audio stream to avoid out of sync?

[admin]

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[reboot]

So if I'm following this right, this amounts to a fix or "fake out" of the frame rate without a complete re-encoding of the entire audio and video steams.

For the sake of argument, it's a bit more complicated than that, but yes, that's essentially what's happening.

Rejig simply demuxes the DVD to it's native m2v and ac3.
It can also take m2v and ac3 (or mp2 or wav) and author into the DVD structure, ready for burning (no menus/chapters/etc.)

Aspect ratio encoding is done in tmpgenc.
Because PAL is 720x576, you must make it NTSC compatible 720x480. Tmpgenc will automatically adjust pixel aspect and frame aspect, so things don't get stretched or squished.

Because we are NOT doing a framerate conversion, simply changing the aspect of the video, but re-encoding at the same framerate as the original, there is no audio desync.
You DO NOT encode audio in tmpgenc. You do not encode audio at all. It's simply authored back with the dgpulldown.m2v
The finished m2v is exactly the same length as the original, thus the audio is in sync.

[BlackPearl]

If you can forgive me for being repetitive, lets see if I have this straight:

Decrypter>rip VOB's

Rejig>stream seperation

Tmpg+>asspect corretion (video)

DGPulldown> frame rate correction(video)

TMPG DVD Author> reassemble M2V & AC3 plus add menu's if desired (vob output)

Nero> Burn and be happy

[reboot]

Exactly!

[BlackPearl]

Cool Beans man!! I'll keep you all posted if interested when I attempt it. I'd like say thanks to all that helped out.....

Rock on!

[LT. Columbo]

best of luck