Some of you may not know of this utility, hence the post.
I recently wished to copy the movies from some DVDs recorded by a friend's DVD recorder. However, the concatenated VOB files, whether performed by Copy /b or VOB2MPG, appeared to be 4:3 instead of 16:9 in both VideReDo and WinDVD. All other players that I have played them as 16:9 and was so indicated by Mediainfo.
I was able to make them unequivocally 16:9 by passing them through ReStream, which allows you set many parameters, including frame rate. It may therefore be useful to rebadge 25p as 24p or vice versa, provided that the speed change and near semitone pitch change are of no consequence. I have not tried it.
The main nuisance is that it only works on an MPEG2 elemental stream, so I had to demux my MPG files, process the video, remux to a TS file using tsMuxer and then to an MPG using VideoReDo. The latter process was of no consequence because I had to remove the ads in any case.
For some reason, and once only, the converted video file was truncated. I can forgive an occasional obvious error.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Restream
I recently wished to copy the movies from some DVDs recorded by a friend's DVD recorder. However, the concatenated VOB files, whether performed by Copy /b or VOB2MPG, appeared to be 4:3 instead of 16:9 in both VideReDo and WinDVD. All other players that I have played them as 16:9 and was so indicated by Mediainfo.
I was able to make them unequivocally 16:9 by passing them through ReStream, which allows you set many parameters, including frame rate. It may therefore be useful to rebadge 25p as 24p or vice versa, provided that the speed change and near semitone pitch change are of no consequence. I have not tried it.
The main nuisance is that it only works on an MPEG2 elemental stream, so I had to demux my MPG files, process the video, remux to a TS file using tsMuxer and then to an MPG using VideoReDo. The latter process was of no consequence because I had to remove the ads in any case.
For some reason, and once only, the converted video file was truncated. I can forgive an occasional obvious error.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Restream