Convert NTSC DVD and rewrite to PAL

[murihikukid]

Hi ..I have a NTSC DVD and I want to send a copy to a friend but he would like it in PAL:....can anybody recommend
a program to do this ....Many Thanks HK

[guns1inger]

Chance are your friend can actually play the NTSC version.

If I had to do this type of job I would start by looking at the source material. If it is true interlaced 29.970 fps NTSC I wouldn't bother. If it is progressive 23.976fps NTSC then I would use VOB2MPG to get the contents out to sperate files, then put them through AVS2DVD to do the conversion, then author using my favourite authoring tool.

[murihikukid]

Hi..Thanks for your reply ...You are quite right ...No doubt he would have no trouble playing a copy of the NTSC version... but I thought I would get smart and try and do a DVD with not only the original music DVD but some extra clips I have by the same artist..Heres what I have done so far since my posting..I Ripped the DVD with DVD Decrypter...and am now re-encoding the VOB files to PAL (720x576 25fps ) using "Super"...Then what I do next is unknown???..I wonder if I can join all the VOB files and drop them into an Authoring Tool..and perhaps add chapters menu etc .Its basicly hit and miss with me .. I am using this as a learning experience..Yesterday the VOB files I encoded that I converted were terrible and now I know why ...Instead of ripping the DVD I started playing around with the VOB's that I copied from the DVD Video_TS folder...I presume this makes me pretty dumb ..I never even checked the VOB's by playing them!!! I have checked the ripped files with Gspot and they are 29.970 fps...
Anyway thankyou very much for your reponse ..its very much appreciated..MK

[guns1inger]

I wouldn't use SUPER. AVS2DVD will do a far better job of converting your files. You can set the output to be MPG files, or elementary streams ready for authoring, or an authored DVD structure.