Mixing NTSC and PAL on SVCDs

[scottb721]

I downloaded some Dolby Digital demos and they are in NTSC, as reported by DVD2AVI. I like having these demos on my movies but my movies are mostly PAL. Previous demos I've ripped have been PAL so no problems.
Can I have NTSC and PAL mpegs on the same SVCD ?
Or do I have to encode the demo using a PAL SVCD template ?

thanks

[EddyH]

Mixing different video standards on one VCD or SVCD = no problem, so long as each is in a separate stream.

I've made plentymuch music video discs where there's PAL, NTSC-TV and NTSC-Film, standard and XVCD streams all together. It tends to help if you bunch them a bit though, with the standard, native-local-format (PAL or N-TV) ones at the start and progress thru to the least friendly/compatible (eg std N-TV, N-Film, PAL, xPAL, xNTV, xNFilm..) as that both minimises having to change to the right standard in the DVD setup, makes it so pretty much any VCD/DVD player can play at least the first few videos, and that the smoothest looking ones are at the start to impress everyone

The actual disc encoding is mainly what it ends up selecting if you put the player on Auto, but that doesnt always work anyway.