Re: DVD format problem?

The MovieStar program that came with the now-defunct Dazzle products
converts in one step.  It is very time consuming.

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> "Rick Pali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >If the DVD were extracted to the hard drive, could anything be done to
> >convert the data so if it were burned to a DVD, it would play properly?
>
> Probably.  I've converted PAL DVD video to NTSC by running it through
> DVD2AVI and then re-encoding it according to NTSC specifications with
> TMPGEnc.  That resulted in a DVD which can be watched on an NTSC
> system; however, due to the framerate conversion, playback was not
> entirely smooth (it wasn't really noticeable to me except when
> scrolling text was being displayed).
>
> There may be better ways to do standards conversions on a computer; it
> seems that this question gets asked a lot, but I don't think I've seen
> any definitive answers on the best way to do it.  The best way of
> which I'm aware involves playing the video through a time base
> corrector (hardware which must be purchased) and then capturing the
> output from the TBC in the format you want to use.  Since that
> involves converting from digital-to-analog-to-digital, there may be
> some minor quality loss.
>
> Here is an example of a TBC: http://www.avtoolbox.com/avt-8710.htm
>