NTSC DVD to PAL DVD-R

[erwtje31]

I have bought a DVD which seems to be NTSC. My player only displays it in black and white. I have a DVD writer. Isn't there an easy way, to create a new dvd, including menu's and everything in the pal standard?

[garryheather]

You can convert to PAL, but not it's not likely to be a "point and click" effort.

Somewhere along the line you will have to re-encode. You might find that if you rip the DVD and then parse it (say use DVD2AVI to create a source that TMPGenc, for example, can use), you can convert the video to PAL and remultiplex the audio and video back together using IFOedit.

Your authoring app might also do standards conversion, but my experience of these suggest that the results are usually sub-standard compared to the likes of TMPGenc and very slow. They do the job though, fair comment. For example, ULead's DVD Workshop allows you to import a media clip and then convert it into another format, but you still have to have it in say MPEG or AVI first.

Might be easier to buy a new TV !

[jeex]

Might be easier to buy a new TV !

or a dvd player that is will output a pal signal no matter the disc.

i've got my apex 1100w set to "multi" and it plays my region 2 (pal) futurama dvd's just fine.

you might try checking the settings in your dvd player and see if it gives you an option.

[Will Bailey]

You can check out www.world-import.com , they've got a bunch of multi-region DVD players with built-in converters, not too expensive. That's where I got mine.

[garryheather]

... thinking about it, my TV has several SCART sockets on the back, and only ONE of them works with NTSC.

Check you've got your TV set up properly so it looks at the right input, and try the other SCART sockets if you've got a choice of them tucked around the back.

Check also that your DVD player is set to output RGB if you don't have pseudo-PAL or PAL-60 ?