HandBrake

just a guess, but how about 25 fps?

its also possible that the source has mixed framerates. eg. 23.98 fps+3:2 pulldown or 23.98 telecined (added fields) to 29.97 or plain old 29.97.

I've had some hd cablebox captures like this.
I think this could lead to a problem like yours.
Thoughts?

--sdm.

I just encountered the same (or similar) problem with an encode. The DVD is Tarzan - Special Edition (yes, Disney) I ripped with MTR 3r14d using the 'Main Feature Extraction'. Encoding to .AVI(h264+AC3). Audio is fine for about 10 minutes, then disappears except for a machine-gun-like sound for the ...

M6NTL In HB/MF you should also take a look in the picture settings section and look at the sample frames it shows you (press next). You may be able to see interlaced frames by looking for the the 'teeth' in motion areas. Also, if your original souce is SD TV or from a video camera, there is a good c...

I stand corrected!

-sdm.

I'm starting to sound like a broken record for recommending this, but...
Mpeg Streamclip is a nice way to encode DivX using the DivX QT component.

Also, if you used MF's or HB's ffmpeg as the codec, the result is DivX.

--sdm.

Yeah!

that sounds sweet.

--sdm.

Sorry if this is too obvious....
but many dvd players don't play mpeg4/xvid/divx - especially if they are a year or old.

Your best bet is just to copy the dvd (using toast or OSX's disk utility)

--sdm.

Don't forget that, for now, if you want to use QT/iTunes/Front Row with your shiny new anamorphic video, you can do a manual transformation of the shape in QT (Pro?) in the 'Movie Properties'. You can then save a QT Reference file. This will play in the QT/iTunes/Front Row with the correct shape. Do...

hairfarmer,

You should try mpeg streamclip for this.
-sdm.

try gettin the Perian codec or Divx or Xvid.

I've reluctantly decided that I must be over-sensitive to this (possibly non-) issue - like I'm looking so hard for it, that I'm seeing it everywhere. Now I see it when watching TV too. If I focus on the subject instead of the moving background, its okay. I said I would report though. I encoded to M...

Hi Golias, Thanks for the ideas. I'm running OSX 10.4.8 on both a dual 1.8GHz G5 PowerMac and an Intel 1.6 GHz Core Dou Mac mini. I've tried on both macs in both VLC and QT. The problem seems to be consistant, no matter what I try. Its definitely not a de-interlace problem. I think I'll encode as xv...

720x480 anamorphic cropped to 720x368 anamorphic = 853x368 square pixels.

I think I'm not losing any lines of resolution. i.e. if I hadn't cropped, the frame would still be 480 lines tall.

Maybe as a test, I should re-encode without cropping? What do you think?

-- sdm.

Sometimes when left to its own devices, MediaFork/HandBrake gets confused and uses 29.97 fps instead, which will produce jerky pans. Hi Jbrjake Yes, I ran it that problem in the past with Handbrake. But the answer is no, I didn't manually set the framerate. But MediaFork got it right. VLC and QT bo...

Just to clarify/recap, MediaFork's AVI(h264+AC3) will play as-is in QT/iTunes/Front Row provided you have the AC3 QT component. The audio is downmixed to stereo (which my reciever decodes it as Dolby ProLogic (simulated surround sound)). The video plays squished (if you use anamorphic PAR) until you...

thanks maurj. So if I intend to stick with .AVI as output from MediaFork (so I can have the AC3 audio), I'll need to manually transform the shape if I want to view it in QT apps. The reason I want AC3 passed through is because using VLC I can send the audio to my (old) audio reciever which decodes i...

First off, nice work on this so far. I've encoded my dvd Lord of the Rings - Felllowship of ... This movie has a lot of camera pans and many cases they don't play smoothly. The framerate is ntsc film. The files are .AVI(h264+AC3) I'm concerned that MediaFork may be dropping frames. When I play the d...

Unless you're familiar enough with EBML and libmatroska to implement a muxer for us...no, not very helpful. Sorry, I'm not familiar with the inner workings of this stuff. I'm curious (and you seem like you would know the answer), if I open a 16x9 720x480 .MKV in QT, and it displays it at 853x480 li...

I just wanted to point out that it's perfectly possible to play "anamorphic" video in QuickTime - so long as you don't mind the video being in a .mov container. Right. That's setting a transformation matrix at the container level. QT won't acknowledge SAR/PAR values in a video track, thou...