Hello. I want to make a DivX from the Andromeda DVD. I had used SmartRipper to rip the VOBs onto the hard drive. I am also using Gordian Knot 0.26b to encode with the 5.02 Divx Pro encoder. I ran DVD2AVI and performed the preview run, and I had a frame rate of 29.970. The other settings (Frame Type or something) alternated between FILM/NTSC and Progressive/Interlaced. I looked online and think I'm supposed to be using inverse telecine or something? The problem is I have no clue what to do now. I tried reading how to encode with IVTC and it was confusing. Any detailed, step-by-step help would be very appreciated. Thank you!
Run the preview in DVD2AVI and check if there is any black lines running across the movie-area, if there isn't then you should use the normal ways of DivX encoding (without using IVTC)... Good luck /Lemorz
There are no huge blatant black lines across the screen. There are, however, these little lines that move back and forth whenever there is some movement. It looks like this picture I found on a website: http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/pictures/original-dvd-interlace.jpg The guides are out there, but I don't understand what I am really supposed to do. I also found this on the Internet, wonder if it will be of any use: "For NTSC DVD's the movie needs to be 29.970 fps so the FPS flag is set to 29.970. But this looks odd because the movie is over far too soon. Imagine it like playing cards, if you throw 4 cards on the floor every second the whole pack will be finished in half the time than if you threw 2 cards onto the floor. The solution is to telecine the movie with 3:2 pulldown to increase the amount of "cards" we have to start with. To do this it uses the RFF and TFF flags are set in the header code. By setting the DVD to Repeat the First Field again you make the video display the fields in the order 3, 2, 3, 2. By setting the TFF flag you set the DVD to start from the top field so the order always goes: top, bottom, top, bottom. Theoretically then, it should be possible to patch the header code of a DVD's Mpeg-2 file and make it play back at 24 fps instead of the 29.970 fps! In fact some people have made patches to do this."
