I have some 5 VCDs. I wanted to put all these onto a DVD with a selection menu. I read most of the Guides on this site and started with the authoring. This is what I did: 1. All the video files had the .dat extension. I used TMPGEnc Plus for converting (and for merging two files) the files to MPEG 1 (Should I convert these to MPEG 2?). I followed the guides for this. 2. I added them into the list (after demuxing into seperate audio and video streams using DVD Lab Pro). 3. I created a menu and linked them properly 4. When I tried to compile the DVD, the program did it correctly for only one of the videos. After that it stopped. I saw a prompt which said that video was neither 29.7 FPS nor 25 FPS. I noticed that all the video streams but one, were 29.7 FPS (NTSC). The second one was 25 FPS (PAL). Can someone guide me in this? This is my first project. Is it that DVD Lab Pro doesnt support different types of FPS for a same project? Is it required that I need to convert the .dat files to MPEG 2? Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for the reply... But is this going to work for sure? I am asking this cos I will have to re-encode all the 5 movies to MPEG2 and that is going to take lot of time. Is there a way around?
This isn't a problem with the MPEG format. The problem is that you have 1 disc that's PAL and the rest are NTSC. The framerate and resolutions won't match, and if you're playing them on an NTSC player it would probably give you problems with the PAL video anyway. Edit: Assuming the material originally came from film the PAL video is probably just sped up to 25fps. Depending on how much time you're willing to spend learning the process it's fairly simple to convert that to NTSC by slowing it down and then encode it to a new MPEG-1 file. You'd also have to resample the audio (which you'll have to do anyway to go from VCD to DVD). The other problem with this approach is that VCD video is already pretty low quality and it will only get worse if you re-encode.
