can a PAL disc work fine in a SECAM system ?

[Bansaw]

Some parts of the world have SECAM as a system. Not PAL or NTSC.

I read somewhere that if I mastered a video in PAL it could play on SECAM without many problems. Is this true?

[Cornucopia]

Yes. The difference between PAL & SECAM is only when BROADCASTING/RECEIVING (and only when analog, of course). Internally, they are nearly identical, certainly identical enough to be totally interchangeable.

Scott

[transporterfan]

Info here:

http://www.cdfs.com/cdfs-dvdstandard.html

[edDV]

I read somewhere that if I mastered a video in PAL it could play on SECAM without many problems. Is this true?

Explain what you are mastering. If the source is digital to DVD there is no difference.

If you are capturing analog SECAM, the tuner must be compatible. Analog SECAM is mostly in decommission in favor of DVB digital. In the third world this may take some time.

[Alex_ander]

if I mastered a video in PAL it could play on SECAM without many problems. Is this true?

Depends on how old is that SECAM TV.
Till the end of 90th, the TV's manufactured at my location, had no PAL decoder, so one could only watch a PAL VHS cassette in colour if he had embedded a decoder by himself. More recent TVs sold around are PAL/SECAM/NTSC-capable. It's the same thing with DVD (+ unlike VHS, there's no digital version of SECAM): a SECAM TV must have a PAL color decoder inside, since a DVD player outputs PAL color TV signal (PAL broadcasting standard) as 'composite' output. But a contemporary SECAM TV is most likely PAL-capable as well.

[pandy]

Some parts of the world have SECAM as a system. Not PAL or NTSC.

I read somewhere that if I mastered a video in PAL it could play on SECAM without many problems. Is this true?

If this is DVD then there is no difference between SECAM and PAL, also if component (RGB or YPbPr) interface (SCART) is used then no SECAM/PAL is involved.