Re: Confused over Womble output options

"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Terry Pinnell" <terrypin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks a bunch Ken. I'm getting closer!

After much work late last night I'm personally coming to the
conclusion that it's better to customise my settings in Womble. IOW,
specify 640 x 480, rather than choosing the 720x576 DVD template.
While that presumably means that my secondary objective (of including
such MPGs in a DVD later) won't be met simultaneously, my experiments
show the result gets played properly in all my players.

I've uploaded the result of encoding Test640x480.avi as
Test640x480-CustomNotDVD.MPG:
http://www.speedyshare.com/608983664.html

(Netmask: In Womble I specified it as 640 x 480, MPEG-2, 25 fps, CBR =
8000, PAR = 1.00)

Working down my list of players, these are the ARs it displayed on
opening:

MediaPlayerClassic (my current MPG association): 1.33
BS Player: 1.33
IrfanView: 1.33
KM Player: 1.33
MediaPlayer2: 1.33
NeroShowTime: 1.33
PowerDVD: 1.33
VLC (but difficulty getting it to play): 1.33
WMP10: 1.33

Happily all are now undistorted ;-)

Do you both agree that seems the best approach please?

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

It was my understanding that PAL was Top Field First,
but your clip looks good. You should be able to pillar box/
frame that 640x480 into your 720x576 16:9 DVD.

Thanks Ken. I'll come back for more help when I get around to trying
that pillar-boxing', as I'm not clear how I would go about that.

I also had help in the video.com forum (from jagabo) who replied as
follows:

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You can make 640x480 square pixel MPG files like that and they should
play properly. But then you'll have to make separate DVD compatible
versions for DVD.

I had played around with the demo of Womble MPEG Video Wizard a while
back and found that it is still on one of my computers (March 2006
update).

After a lot of fiddling around I was able to get it to output DVD
compatible 4:3 MPG files that were very close to correct:

1) Import Clip
2) Drag clip to timeline
3) Right click on clip in timeline, go to Video and make sure Maintain
Aspect Ratio is NOT selected!
4) Export -> Monitor -> Template, select DVD PAL
5) Export -> Video -> Expert -> PAR -> 3/4 (default was 9/16)
6) Export -> Monitor -> Start (saves MPG file)

The output MPG file had the source stretched to 720x480 rather than to
704x480 and padded with 8 pixels at the left and right sides. But
that's probably close enough for you. This clip played with the
correct DAR on everything except mplayer2.exe.
---------

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK
.

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