I have an AVI file that appears to have been ripped from a PAL DVD. The movie was never released in the USA in NTSC format on DVD. I used to have it on VHS a long time ago. Frankly, my time is worth more than the cost of a DVD, so I'd buy it if I could. But since I can't buy it, I'd like to try to convert this AVI so I can watch it on my DVD player.
The file is 25 frames per second. All the advice I see online talks says to "convert it to 23.976fps and use 3:2 pulldown during playback".
One page I found instructs me to use virtual dub to split out the audio and video separately, then use virtualdub on the video file to change the framerate. The instructions indicate that it will do this by essentially stretching the playback time of the video so that you end up with 23.976fps instead of 25fps. Of course, you then need to do the same thing with the audio so that they line up.
This is good in theory, but for some reason, I don't think the video "time stretching" is really working as it should. At one point in the original film, there's a rapid succession of single-frame images. In the resulting "time stretched" video, not all the frames are there, and the video actually goes completely black for a few frames a few times.
Judging from the screenshots in the instructions, they used a much older version of virtualdub, so maybe I need to dig up the exact version they used instead of the new version that I'm using.
If you're reading this, and you know how to make this work, please share. Thanks.
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