Help Me Crack the NTSC DVD to PAL DVDR conversion PLEASE!

[wossman]

Hello everybody, I have recentley obtained a mass of (original) NTSC DVD movies as gifts from over seas. I Live in europe and my setup(s) will only allow me to play PAL dvds!!!. I am reletivley new @ this but i do have basic knowledge of DVDdecrypter,Shrink,Tmpgenc author etc. What i would like to do is convert the NTSC dvds to PAL dvdrs with little quality loss (movie only). I have searched the forums but i cant find a solution.

p.s. I have converted one of the films to vcd pal but the quality is not good enough.

Many thanks in advance to NE 1 who can help!.

[Duchess]

Are you actually sure that you need to do this? I ask because most DVD players and TV's in Europe are multiformat and will work with PAL and NTSC discs. Have you actually tried playing them, if not give it a go and you may get a pleasant surprise with what happens.

[wossman]

I have tried but im afraid it doesn't work on either of my setups. my only option is to convert . thanks all the same

[northwind]

I think you are wrong.
I do this on a regular basis.

The issue is not the dvd-player but the television set.
The television set must be able to do PAL-60. Otherwise you will get no picture or a black/white picture.

Use the SCART connector. It has component connection as well. You can get adaptors for that.

Otherwise the only way forward is a total recode through virtualdup and tmpenc.

Good luck

[CaseyComb]

TMPGenc Xpress 3.0 will encode directly from vob files. That may cut out a step if you have to re-encode.