Posted by Kate on 04/29/07 08:50

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:55:26 GMT, rich wrote:

>> Could these thrift-shop DVDs be PAL instead of NTSC?
>> How could I prove the DVDs are PAL or NTSC?
> get the little app ifoedit from
> http://www.videohelp.com/tools/IfoEdit
> run it and open the video_ts.ifo file in the video_ts directory on the DVD.

Good heavens! IfoEdit is EXACTLY the kind of application I was looking for!
I'm very surprised all my googling didn't turn up IfoEdit as the program of
choice for unoquivically determining PAL vs NTSC video formats!

I downloaded and installed the IfoEdit freeware (installation was as simple
as a copy of the single file in the download). IfoEdit reported in the VMG
Overview: section:

Video Manager Menu attributes:
Video: MPEG-1 720x576 (PAL) (PAL 625/50) (4:3) (pan-scan & letterboxed)

Number of Video Title Sets on this DVD: 2
Title Set 1:
VTS_1 Video: MPEG-2 720x576 (PAL) (PAL 625/50) (16:9) letterboxed
Title Set 2:
VTS_2 Video: MPEG-2 720x576 (PAL) (PAL 625/50) (16:9) letterboxed

So, I think the only problem is I have a PAL DVD which I need to convert to
NTSC. There seem to be tutorials out there so I am currently following one
of them (which uses TMPGEnc trialware, DGMPGDec DGIndex freeware, and
DGPulldown freeware
http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=300144

While I'm at it, would most of you recommend this approach to identify that
the DVD is PAL and then to convert it to NTSC using this tutorial?

Kate

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