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NTSC to PAL Conversion
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maraya
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16. February 2005 @ 07:19 |
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woofy,
where were you a month ago...lolz, yes, we did get a player for about $40 and works perfectly.
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16. February 2005 @ 08:12 |
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lot of v interesting info/solutions in there (honest), BUT if it's just to convert ntsc dvd to pal dvd, why not just use DVD Shrink ????, amybe even just use Shrink to make the resulting DVD to region-LESS.
I often rip NTSC DVDs, and they play fine (i'm in UK and make the DVD's region-less but i spose you can make them PAL region specifically - don't see the need myself)
I don't know if i'm oversimplying the issue but that's what the original poster seemed to ask for ??..
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newcomers
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16. February 2005 @ 10:06 |
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16. February 2005 @ 10:09 |
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oh dear now i gotta prove it :)
i rip NTSC region 1 discs, and they play on PAL equipment (dvd's created are region-less, but i know you can assign a region instead). Is that the whole story or have i completely missed the plot with NTSC to PAL ??
(in possible embarrassed anticipation)
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16. February 2005 @ 10:14 |
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Most PAL DVD players and TVs have no problem with NTSC video. Either they support playing it as NTSC or they convert it to something called PAL60 (I think that's the name) which basically means the resolution is converted to PAL but the framerate remains 29.97fps. There's some PAL equipment that doesn't handle either of these but from what I understand it's fairly uncommon.
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newcomers
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16. February 2005 @ 10:16 |
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LOL
No actually there is a difference (unfortunately)
Region codes can easily be removed (like DVD Shrink does) but the hard part is actually converting from NTSC to pal
NTSC plays at 23 frames per second while PAL plays at 25 frames per second. Certain tv's and dvd players in the uk will only play PAL dvds, hence the need to convert from NTSC to pal
DVD2SVCD does the job brilliantly but unfortunately you lose the menus
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16. February 2005 @ 10:41 |
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yeah, i know the differences tween the 2 systems, but as haven't seen a disc play up cus of it, thats why im a bit blonde about it :)
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16. February 2005 @ 10:43 |
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@newcomers
Actually NTSC plays at 29.97fps but the video on most NTSC DVDs is actually encoded at 23.976fps (because it's from film which is 24fps) and telecined using pulldown flags to play at the appropriate framerate by duplicating fields. I'm not sure what DVD2SVCD does for conversion but the proper way to do it is to take the original video stream without telecine flags and speed it up to 25fps and re-encode at PAL resolution. Then the audio stream has to be sped up to match and can also be pitch corrected (or else it will be slightly higher pitched than the original).
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