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[MOVIEGEEK]

Tell them to buy a Philips or Oppo DVD player,converting someone elses store bought DVD's is not only illegal(in most countries) but time consuming.
If they are homemade videos then any encoder will work but the results vary,search the "How To Convert" guides.

[ziggy1971]

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[MOVIEGEEK]

1.If you bothered to use the search function you would find 1000 topics regarding this question.
2.My suggestion of buying a multiregion DVD player is recommended by most members of this forum.
Good luck getting anymore help with that attitude.

[Noahtuck]

P.S. Telling people that it's illegal to copy DVD's and then having a DVD Ripping guide in your signature seems a little hypocritical, don't you think!!!

Maybe you should re-read the post's....

It's illegal to rip, backup & convert someone else's commercial dvd, not your own.....

What's with all the lippy noob's lately

[redwudz]

... the video is displayed at 1024x576 widescreen. What's up with that? How is that done I'd like to know how this is done because if it's possible to increase the resolution I'm definitely going to start doing it that way.

Most likely there's a AR flag with the video to tell the player the correct aspect ratio for display.

Also, I would like to know if it's possible to convert PAL to NTSC with reasonably good results because I have some customers that would like to have their home videos converted.

Yes, but if you wanted to include the original menus, it's a lot of work. As mentioned, it's a whole lot easier to just use a player that accepts PAL video. But a few guides: https://www.videohelp.com/convert#4;41

BTW, the two posters before me know considerably more than me about both those questions. Good luck.

[manono]

First, when I open the VOB files in GSpot 2.70, the videos are listed as 720x576 widescreen @ 25 fps as expected, however, when I play the video with Media Player (or any other player), the video is displayed at 1024x576 widescreen. What's up with that? How is that done? Every video I've created til now in widescreen format has always turned out to be 720x480 widescreen @ 29.97 fps. That's what GSpot 2.70 says that the video is and that's what all my players also display them at.

No offense intended, but if you have to ask questions like that and make assertions like that, then you're not ready to do a PAL2NTSC conversion.

A 720x576 resolution PAL 16:9 DVD gets resized by the player to 1024x576 at playback time (576 x 16/9 = 1024).

And no, an NTSC 16:9 DVD isn't displayed at 720x480. At playback time it gets resized by the player to ~854x480 (480 x 16/9 = 853.333...)

And no, you don't just crop off the top and bottom of a PAL DVD until it's 720x480 and then encode for NTSC. Not, that is, unless you want it to play with very bad aspect ratio.

I'm with the others. Tell your customers to buy a player that does the conversion. You're not ready to do it for them.