DVD-R PAL or is this not the problem...?

[pwygant]

I have probably a newbie question...

I live in the US. My family lives in Europe and take DV footage and edit and have always burned to SVCD for me here. Now, we have moved to DVD-R. Today when I received the new format I tried to play it in my Pioneer DV343 and it just rolled. The screen, menu, and everything just rolled.

Here is my question:

They use Pinnacle studio 8 to edit and then author the DVD-R. (We used to use TMPGE to encode to SVCD but now they just authored direct from Pinnacle.)

Could the problem be Region problem? I didn't think it would since there shouldn't be a copyright issue? Could it be another video setting in which this sets the finisihed product not to play on a NTSC DVD player?

All these questions were to me not a problem since the Stand alone DVD-player sets it to either NTSC or PAL, I thought.

Any info surely would be appreciated...

[Thorn]

The rolling does sound like the tv is getting a pal signal and doesn't like it. Does your DVD have a NTSC/PAL/AUTO selection? My apex plays both but I don't have any PAL DVDs so I haven't tried it. When I select PAL the screen rolls, so I'm assuming your player is sending the tv a PAL signal. See if you can force it to NTSC.

Also, if you have a DVD drive on your computer it shouldn't care if the disc is NTSC or PAL and should play fine.

[pwygant]

Thanks for your quick reply. My answer to your question is no. My TV doesn not have the PAL signal. However, I thought that the DVD did the selection and play the appropriate selection on the TV? Anyway it always did on SVCD's whether it was PAL or NTSC. I don't think DVD-R should be any different, should it?

Also, I took this same DVD-R to Ultimate electronics and had them put the disc in all their Pioneers on other TV's and it did the same. (Rolling)

Finally, I did play it in WINDVD and yes, it plays perfectly. What to do?

Is there anybody else out there with this scenario?

[Thorn]

oops, I meant does your DVD player have the option to select PAL/NTSC. The signal needs to be NTSC by the time it gets to the tv, so I'm assuming that the DVD player can do this, but perhaps it is not automatically selecting correctly. Since many players treat CDs and DVDs separately, it's possible it correctly handles the SVCD but not the DVD. Maybe someone here has been using pal DVDs here in a US player and can confirm anything?