Is there a way to make a Region 2 PAL DVD into a R1 NTSC?

[Dunnyman]

I had a friend in OZ send me several movies from there, but although I can watch them on my Mac and my PC, my DVD player won't read them. I can switch the Region codes easily enough, but the PAL standard doesn't play on my TV. Is there a way to convert them to NTSC? I appreciate the gifts, but it would be nice to be able to watch them, and I don't wanna break her heart by telling her they're no good over here...

[hech54]

Try backing it up....and make it Region Free this time. Alot of American players can play PAL R0....provided your TV is relatively new. The colors won't be spectacular but hey....might be worth a few bucks in the form of a DVDR.

[scumball]

Demux to M2V and AC3 streams using DVD Decrypter and get chapter info, then run M2V file through TMPGENc and re-encode to 525 lines and 23.96 or 29.97 frames per second. Remux with AC3 file and chapters text file using IfoEdit DVD author mode. Reburn Video_TS folder to DVDR via normal burning app..voila, alright it's movie only at this stage but I'm pretty sure this could work...

[scumball]

..actually ignore me your audio would be well out of sync - I'm a plum.

[Gurm]

Uhh... you re-encode to 480 lines FROM 525.

- Gurm

[johns0]

You will have to change the audio to run in sync with the new frame rate,not sure if besweet can do ac3 properly but set the tab in besweet to PAL -> NTSC (25.000 to 29.97) and go ac3 to ac3 convert and with tmpg set it to dvd(ntsc) and in settings/advanced check `do not frame rate conversion`Not sure on the pulldown part with dvd specs if it uses that.

[bugster]

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