Ripping foreign dvds

[Dragon_zombie_x]

Ok, say I take a european dvd and rip the files from it. Will it play on my computer? I believe they are in pal format over there. Say I take the european buffy dvd's and rip the files from them. They would play on my moniter wouldnt they? And if not can I convert them so that they would? I live in the u.s if anyone needs to know to leave me an answer. Please respond to this.

[Vejita-sama]

On your computer, no problem (I've done this several times).

Converting to x(S)VCD is a little harder to say. I've takedn region4 PAL DVDs, ripped them, and just encoded w/ the NTSC VCD template and like 80% of the time everything works (no audio sync problems, great picture, etc).

About 20% of the time problems develop Mostly skipping in motion scences, audio out of sync, for some odd reason it stays as PAL so it's B&W and skipping, etc. etc.