I followed the guide "How to convert AVI files (DivX, XviD etc.) to DVD with Avi2DVD" and it just finished 6 hours of encoding. Then I burned it and put it in my DVD player and a error messege comes up with "Not NTSC" now I know what this means but I don't know where I went wrong in the guide. Can someone help me out? Am I going to have to encode agian?
You should convert AVI to NTSC-mode DVD and burn to DVD-R(W), I think.
NTSC stands for National Television System Committee.
NTSC is a color TV standard developed in the United States in 1953 by National Television System Committee. NTSC is used in most of the American continent countries and in various Asian countries. Rest of the world uses either some variety of PAL or SECAM standards. NTSC runs on 525 lines/frame and it's vertical frequency is 60Hz. NTSC's framerate is 29,97 frames/sec.
PAL, was introduced in the early 1960's in Europe , stands for Phase Alternating Line. It has better resolution than in NTSC, having 625 lines/frame, but the framerate is slightly lower, being 25 frames/sec. PAL is used in most of the western European countries (except France , where SECAM is used instead), Australia , some countries of Africa , some countries of South America and in some Asian countries.
Thanks for the info morobert but I did in fact know all that. I did find the solution in Avi2Dvd you need to select "Pal to Ntsc" in "Step 2 Output" I guess it defaults to PAL if you don't select "Pal to Ntsc".
