how do i convert ntsc to pal

[hendrix70]

ok, ive got a dvd player that is ntsc/pal compatible but my tv isnt its just straight pal.
so my svcds that i play through my dvd player come out black and white, i download them off mirc and was wondering if i can change the ntsc formal to pal and if that would work as all my downloads seem to be in ntsc.
also if it can be done what do i need to know thanks

[op157]

Is it only a matter of resizing and changing the framerate?

[Goldenaxe4000]

hello all
NRTC TO PAL VCD MPEG1
only one good program available
PANASONIC MPEG1 CONVERTOR
URL: http://www.networkserve.co.jp/mpeg/
YOU CAN ALSO DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM FROM THERE !
But beware !
a high system required and a lot of ram
and a lot of hours .. i mean a lot ... 12-15 for a full movie 2 hours on P3 700 256 MB
and you need no other program running at the same time !

[willem]

If your downloads are DivX's then you can convert them straight to VCD using e.g. TMPGEnc. This will give jerky video when you have a 23.976fps DivX and create a 25fps PAL VCD. To avoid that you can try this procedure:

1) Open the DivX in VirtualDub
2) Select Audio -> Full processing mode and compression -> None (PCM Wav)
3) Save Wav (under File)
4) Select Audio -> No audio
5) Select Video -> Direct stream copy
6) Select Video -> Frame rate -> specify a 25fps frame rate
7) Save AVI (under file)

These steps give you a big uncompressed wav file and a videostream of 25fps. If you play both you'll notice that the duration of the videostream is shorter than the duration of the audio stream. If you would put them together now, there would be audio async increasing towards the end of the film. You'll have to speedup the audio stream to correct this. It may sound weird, but this is the way pro's do it too apparently.

1) Open the audio stream in CoolEdit2000
2) Select convert -> time/pitch
3) Specify a percentage of 104.271
4) Select high precision and preserve pitch
5) Save the result as a PCM wav file

Now you have an audio stream that has the same duration as the video stream, ready to put together. At step 4 you can select low precision. This is about 10 times faster, but the quality is less. Especially in music. In dialogs you won't notice a difference in quality. Now you have the ingredients you can feed into TMPGEnc to create a (S)VCD. Just select the 25fps videostream as video source and the PCM Wav file saved in CoolEdit as audio source.

This procedure takes some time and about 3GB of harddiskspace but the result is a smooth 100% PAL compliant VCD.

If you download (S)VCD MPEGs then you can probably do something similar. I don't know if VirtualDub handles MPEG's well.

If you find a way to convert MPEGs this way please let me know by posting it here.