NTSC DVD to PAL DVD

[uniks]

How and with what do I make this conversion?

[guns1inger]

This has been covered many times for PAL to NTSC, and it is not easy to do. Going from NTSC to PAL is about the same amount of work, unless the material is 29.97 fps. Then you cannot do it without damaging it. Most people do not convert NTSC to PAL simply because the vast majority of PAL players happily play NTSC material. If yours doesn't, new players are cheap enough that it is far simpler to replace the player than convert the disc.

Also, converting an entire DVD, menus, extras and all is time consuming and relatively difficult compared to simply converting the main title and creating new menus yourself.

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic300144.html will give you an idea of the basic principles. In your case, instead of encoding as 25 fps 720 x 480 and using DGPulldown to get 29.97 fps playback, you will be encoding 720 x 576 @ 23.976 fps, and then using DGPulldown to get 25 fps playback. Everything else is as written.

edit : fixed typo pointed out by jman (below). Thanks, mate.

[jman98]

guns1inger - I think you made a mistake in your 2nd sentence above. I think you meant to say "Going from NTSC to PAL", but you said the reverse. If I'm right, you may want to edit that and fix it.

[skaterboii]

Why not just use IFO Edit to make an NTSC compliant DVD?
The software does everything you need to change or alter characteristics of the DVD Video files without re-encoding them, PAL to NTSC and vice versa, fps conversion, resolution conversion & menu alternation etc.

[guns1inger]

If you don't re-encode, then you d not have a compliant DVD. What you have is a PAL DVD with a few headers and files patched to say PAL. It may fool some players, but it won't foll a lot of them, and it doesn't really solve the problem.

The best solution is multi-format playback equipment

[skaterboii]

Ive tested it & it works just fine, but I do agree with using multi format equipment to solve such probs.

[guns1inger]

Tested it with what ? A single player, or even a handful, is not an endorsement of the patch method. It is a lazy and poor quality method. I'm glad it worked for you in this instance, but it isn't a real answer.

[Pinstripes23]

Why not just use IFO Edit to make an NTSC compliant DVD?

It definitely is NOT a compliant NTSC DVD as you state.