PAL DVD TO NTSC DVD???

[vitapress]

How do i ripp a pal dvd and then convert it to ntsc dvd?
Can dvd shrink do this or if not then what?

[sentenced2000]

Yep...i wanna know that too. A friend will send me 5 PAL dvd-rs. I don't have problems in read those dvds on my daewoo dvd player (and displaying the image on my ntsc tv), but , as i am a trader, i mostly move my dvds between the north american & japanese communities, so i need ntsc by force.

I though in play those dvds on my daewoo player and make real-time recording s on my panasonic dmr-e30 dvd recorder, but i'm a bit worried about the quality loss of that procedure.

Also i can rip the pal dvd & re-encode with the tmpgenc encoder setting the output as a 720x480 ntsc mpg2 file, but also i'll loss a bit of quality, so i don't know what to do. Solutions there are, but if someone knows a better way to convert a PAL dvd to NTSC without lose quality will be very appreciated.

[Dennis1968]

Try this trick. I have successfully ripped and converted sereval UK issued DVDs to play on many different US only/ non firmware upgradable DVD players. after ripping the contents to the HD using Smartripper 2.41, i used IfoEdit .95 to remove the region code restriction and replaced the PAL header with NTSC headers. Them Burn them onto a 4.7gb DVD+R. So far have not ran across a DVD player that will not play them.

[jbenj01]

How do you replace PAL 'headers' with NTSC??