problem with TMPGnc

[mcman187]

ive got this vcd thats pal and my dvd player will play it but its in black and white and i wanna see it in color so i figured i would convert it to ntsc because my dvd player plays ntsc fine so i went to load up the movie in TMPGEnc and i hit start encoding and the program freezes up why is it freezing up i thought i would try another movie to see if it was the movie and it did the same thing i cant figure out why its freezing up is it something im doing wrong please someone tell me what to do cause i would like to watch this movie thanks in advance for any help

[Yeshi]

OMG did u bother looking on the back of your DVD player for this little switch? the three options are PAL/NTSC/AUTO
just have a look! when i first bought my DVD player, the default setting was NTSC so a pal VCD came out black and white, so i just moved the switch to PAL and viola. it worked. you dont have to reencode or any of that crap.

[mcman187]

what kinda dvd player do you have cause i dont have a switch
there is nothing back there i have a phillips dvd 701 and it tells in the book how to change them and i did that but its still in black and white because i dont live in the area where they use pal i live in the ntsc area so any other suggesions ive already tried that no help

[Yeshi]

hmm, thats kind of crap. if you followed the manual and you still can watch it in colour then you should return it, anyway, phillips is hopeless. i have a pioneer, there is a 3 option switch on the back, pal/ntsc/auto.

[jovobas]

Hi guys,
NTSC and PAL are TV-standards, it's the way the TV- signal is converted into colours and this depends on the geographical location. If you play an NTSC-VCD on a PAL-TV (or v.v.) you only get b/w. The switch on the back of the DVD-player (and yes, there should be one on the Philips) only allows you to use the player on both NTSC and PAL TV's.
Yeshi : re-encoding to NTSC is the only option.
jovobas