PAL --> NTSC DVD, how to?

[ashardin]

Hopefully someone here has experience with this and can help:

My girlfriend is a violinist and orchestra teacher, and me being the sweetheart that I am, I bought her a really cool symphony performance of one of her favorites from Europe.  Of course, I only checked that it was region 0, and not that it was friggin' PAL.  It plays fine on the computer, but she wants to show it to some of her music friends and teachers so I want to transfer it to NTSC DVD.  

I've looked into online, and have not found anything that wasn't extremely involved.  Am I missing something?  Is there an easier way to do it?  I'm not concerned about losing some quality during the conversion.  Anyone have any pointers for me?  

[RacerX]

www.dvdhelp.com should have a step by step tutorial on it (or several of them).  They are pretty involved, but I don't think there's an easier way.

[bionicbadger]

Buy a multi region DVD player that does the conversion for you automatically.  There are some cheap APEX/Phillips ones that do it, or go to your local china town's video store and take a look there at their DVD players (likely pretty cheap and should be some that are region free, PAL/NTSC)

[Snarbald]

The easiest way at this point is probably going to be to get a video card with an svideo out and just play it off the computer.

[GodSend25]

Just a note.  My dvd player plays both PAL and NTSC but *ONLY* if I hook it upto my television using component (red-green-blue) connections.  Give that a try.  Also my xbox seems to play most PAL dvds as well..

[maraxle]

You could rip it to an MPEG-2, use TMPGEnc to re-encode it to an NTSC-compatible resolution and frame rate, and burn it back to a DVD.  You're probably better off dropping it to a 24 fps movie-style encoding than upping it to 29.97 fps, since losing 1 frame per second will be less noticable than duplicating 4.97 frames per second.

[ashardin]

I've ripped it to Divx already, maybe that might be my best move, just convert that to dvd format and burn from there.

[Thenasty]

use DVD Shrink or DVD Decrytper. It will make your NEW DVD REGION FREE once tranfered to a  blank DVD.

[GodSend25]

use DVD Shrink or DVD Decrytper. It will make your NEW DVD REGION FREE once tranfered to a  blank DVD.

HIs problem is that the dvd IS the correct region, but its has a european video encoding.  Those 2 things are completly different.