Hello,
Now I consider myself a somewhat experieced movie ripper but I cant seem to firgure this problem out and would appreciate any help!
Ive been trying to rip and encode this movie which is 3 hrs 3 mins and 44 seconds in duration according to the actual DVD (which I own). Now the ripping/encoding process seems to go smoothly but by the end of it, the AVI file is 3 hours 3 mins and 55 SECONDS in length!! No blank frames were added to the movie so where did the extra 11 seconds come from?? As a result of this, extremely small yet audible pauses in the audio stream were inserted. I imagine this is to keep synchronization with the longer-than-its-own-audio movie.
My question is, why is the movie being encoded into a 3:03:55 long AVI file when the DVD states it is 3:03:44 in length? The movie is detected to be a 29.97Hz film. I tried other output framerates and even forcing 24Hz but none of it seems to work. Any other suggestions?
Hi Sam, I guess I know why.
Your movie is a 29.97Hz film, that meas its fame rate is 29.97 fps(frame per second). The software you use processed this movie with a approximate frame rate 30 fps not exact 29.97 fps.
So ----
3:03:44 = 11,024s
11,024 * 30 / 29.97 = 11,035s = 3:03:55
See? You are right, this software have to insert several empty audio clips to keep synchronization.
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous. -- John Berger
whoa!!! thank you so much peggywang! Thats definitely the problem. I use DVDx v2.3 to rip the movie and i set it to encode at 29.97 fps so i dont know why its causing that problem. What software could I use in order to encode at EXACTLY 29.97 fps since DVDx v2.3 doesnt seem to work properly?
It seems that most software can not encode at exactly 29.97fps (maybe because only 25fps and 30fps would be written in the '.IFO' files of a DVD).
Maybe some software can process the asynchronous problem caused by frame rate settings in a better way. But I don't know :(
Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous. -- John Berger
