NTSC DVD player that allows you to slow down playback speed?

[eurotimes2]

I know that Panasonic DVD players allow you to slow playback to 0.8 or 0.9.

I was wondering if anyone knew of a DVD player that will allow you to slow down playback to anywhere between 0.92 to 0.98 and still allow you to hear the audio and enjoy the content as though you were watching it at normal speed (1.0)?

[jman98]

I've never heard of this feature and find its usefulness to be dubious, but an internet search backs you up that it exists. I am afraid that you are looking for way more granularity in slowing down playback than any affordable consumer DVD player is going to give you. But when I make statements like that it always brings people out of the woodwork to give examples on how wrong I am. If you haven't had a response in a week or so about a player that can do what you want then there probably isn't one.

[Cornucopia]

Let's look at this thing logically...

You've got MPEG2 video in a DVD. It has GOPs - usually 12-18 frames each. A DVD player that allowed SLOWING DOWN and SPEEDING UP would have to have a much larger pre-read buffer so it could load & decode at least 1 GOP (probably at least 2), plus buffering & decoding of whatever Audio you're talking about.
Add to that the fact that you'll have to have a Greater-Than-1x DVD drive to be able to change the spin to access that much quicker (at least for SPEEDING UP), along with Packet stream logic that has been modded to allow for a non-standard stream rate.
And then there's the big part: You'd need built-in compositors/remixers for Video & Audio so you could do realtime frame-rate conversion (with Motion Interpolation) and Tempo/Pitch Resampling.
Finally, you'd probably have a settop & remote that has a custom control that looks like a jog wheel, in order to control it.

That all adds up to $$$$. Not impossible, but not for most consumers. More like Industrial/Broadcast/Pro usage & costs...

Otherwise, you're stuck with the rest of us enjoying Silent 1/8x, 1/4x, 1/2x, 2x, 4x and 8x "skip-mode" RW/FF. That's it.

No magic wand - it has to happen some how, and you get what you pay for.

Scott

[eurotimes2]

Thanks for the response. I'm a little surprised that something like this doesn't exist considering that I have an eight year old Panasonic DVD player that gives me the ability to play designated speeds from 0.8 to 1.3. Regardless, I do know that with a VLC player you can watch DVDs and slow it down to the speed I want (0.96).

Does anybody know of a way to watch a DVD using the VLC player but not using an actual computer? The reason I'd rather not watch it using a computer is because of the unexpected slow down that always randomly occurs.

[jman98]

It would seem that the real issue here is that you want to slow down 25 fps PAL DVDs to 24 fps. Some commercial software DVD/BluRay players have a special PAL mode that does something like this, but I'm hesitant to make recommendations on a feature I've never used and know little about.

[eurotimes2]

It would seem that the real issue here is that you want to slow down 25 fps PAL DVDs to 24 fps. Some commercial software DVD/BluRay players have a special PAL mode that does something like this, but I'm hesitant to make recommendations on a feature I've never used and know little about.

Feel free to make any recommendations on DVD players. I promise I won't hold it against you if for whatever reason it doesn't work. I'll simply return it if it doesn't work.

[hech54]

have an eight year old Panasonic DVD player that gives me the ability to play designated speeds from 0.8 to 1.3.

What's the model number?