Conver NTSC DVD to PAL DVD..Help needed.

[orangenik]

Can someone please help me out with the best way to take a NTSC DVD (decoded) and make a PAL DVD copy of it.

Thanks All.

BTW Great Forums.

[Taz69]

I'm not sure why you would want to go to that much effort.

As far as I know virtually all DVD Players will play a NTSC spec DVD without any problems what so ever.

(I've actually seen a few PAL DVDs where the trailers and bonus material is encoded in NTSC.)

The only thing that usually prevents a NTSC DVD playing on a PAL DVD Player is the region code which you'll remove as you rip the DVD.
If a NTSC DVD plays in black and white there is usually an option in the settings to allow you to select NTSC and regain the colour.

I know the Sony PS2 plays in b/w (unchipped without multi-region software) on a TV but if you feed the signal through a scart lead/modern video you should also get colour without needing to rescale and re-encode the film in PAL.

I expect you will lose alot of quality re-encoding and I wouldn't be surprised if you end up with audio sync problems as well.

I have quite a few NTSC films which I can watch quite happily on a PAL TV...

[Billie]

You may want to have a look here:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/convert

I managed to do a framerate conversion using their guide.

Billie