Hello,

I've recently got a copy of an official japanese vcd from a Madonna concert. I tried to play it on my dvd player (pioneer dv-444-s) but my tv system will only play PAL format and the vcd is NTSC.

I tried to grab the dat file from the video and convert it to a PAL mpeg and then burn it has vcd. Being a live show with lots of dancers and stuff, the motion in the image will always seem pixelated durinmg high movement scenes (when I use CBR at 1150 - Im using TMPGenc by the way). I then tryed to convert it using VBR (minimum 1600/average 2500/maximum 3500) and the image looks just perfect BUT the vcd will pop and skip after some minutes of playback.

So here I am with an high quality copy of an official japanese release and I don know what to do with it. Is there any simple way of converting my dat file to a pal file without loosing quality? Can anyone help? I can both use pcs or macintosh computers.

Thank you!