capture played back at wrong rate

[Fat Tone]

Hi

I have captured 30 minutes of video for a friend. It is an old analogue camcorder and I connected composite and audio to my hybrid Compro DVB-T300 tuner. Playback whilst recoding is perfectly fine and recording settings are for DVD PAL_I.

However, when playing back the .mpg file either in its own app or in WMP it is too fast. I'm guessing it is the difference between a 25fps recording being played back at 30fps.

Can anyone please offer advice on either forcing the playback speed, or better yet doing it properly in the first place? I can't see mention of frame rates in the settings for recording but it definitely says PAL.

TIA

Tony.

[Brian Ellis]

Try the standard PAL signal, type B. Type I is a peculiar UK system with a non-standard pre-emphasis and audio carrier offset. As neither camcorder analogue outputs nor MPEG files require these settings, using type I is really irrelevant. However, are you sure the cam is PAL and not NTSC? If the latter, it will output at a frame rate of 29.97 fps and it's not impossible that it would impose this in the recording.

[Fat Tone]

Thanks Brian. I'll check all of that as soon as I can kick Luke off the PS2 (this is on my HTPC and he loves playing in front of the LCD).