PAL vs. NTSC problems with downloaded video files...

[CZroe]

OK, if you disable the hardware assistance in WMP this video will look squished. On my Portable Media Center, it is also squished along with other downloaded commercials made from PAL sources. I'd like to simply make a lower NTSC-resolution file from this PAL recording to maintain the correct aspect. A little help?

 

[quakefiend420]

try tmpgencoder...i think that can change aspect ratios and stuff for you

 

[CZroe]

I've used it before. I'll look for the option. Thanks!

 

[quakefiend420]

np

 

[CZroe]

OK, well all output setting still squish it because they do not scale the image (Adding a border if necessary). It appears to be 16x9 and in need of nothing more than letterboxing. Where can I find something that will cale it down with letterboxes?

Edit: I was using the commercial software trial instead of the freeware utility. For some reason, the freeware is more capable than the commercial software. Yes, that means I did get letterboxing added to my vid and I discovered that 16:9 can reference pixel aspect ratios as well as the entire screen (Otherwise, PAL could not be called "4:3"). I was still dissapointed with the resulting frame rate after WMP10's transcode to WMV so I found a utility that could do it better. ALL videos synced from non-WMV formats seem to get the low frame rate regardless of quality settings in the sync setup. The image wuality through TMPGENC was OK, but I still would have preferred RAW/Uncompressed or WMV output to avoid a double-conversion.