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jagmv47
How do I go from NTSC .vob or mpeg2 to PAL.vob or mpeg2?
Is there any software available?
Synthetic Soul
This search may point to some useful threads.

Many seem to be regarding converting PAL > NTSC, but I'm sure the suggestions will help in either direction.

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=36088
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=33915
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=30209
CiTay
There is software that can do it, but it's best to avoid this conversion, because it's not necessary nowadays. Any PAL DVD player can easily play back NTSC content, and if your TV is not older than 8 years or so, it will have no problems displaying NTSC content either (on older TV sets, it can appear black/white though). Even if it's not a Multinorm TV, many newer DVD players can output NTSC content as PAL-compatible during playback (check the options).

I would also avoid it because you will lose quality. You need to go from 480 lines to 576 lines and from 30 to 25 fps. This can also have bad effects on the audio track.

If you can't make NTSC work in color on your TV at all, maybe it's time for a new one... christmas is around the corner... wink.gif
RockFan
QUOTE(jagmv47 @ Nov 28 2005, 04:44 AM)
How do I go from NTSC .vob or mpeg2 to PAL.vob or mpeg2?
Is there any software available?
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'Transcoding' NTSC MPEG2 streams to PAL MPEG2? Basically can't be done.

You'd have to 'decode' to uncompressed video (AVI file or similar), run the NTSC to PAL conversion and re-encode to MPEG2.

Even the NTSC > PAL conversion of uncompressed video in software would be tricky, if tools to fo it exist, and could end up looking pretty crap.


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