[mythtv-users] [OT] PAL DVD to NTSC

Boleslaw Ciesielski bolek-mythtv at curl.com
Fri Sep 5 13:38:22 UTC 2008


Brad Fuller wrote:
> Googlin I see that it's possible to use mencoder to copy a PAL DVD and
> convert it to play on NTSC systems. But, most of the hacks I've read
> seemed rather involved. Maybe because I didn't find the right one. Has
> anyone found an easy way to convert PAL to NTSC DVDs?  --- ok, "easy"
> is loaded ;-)

Relatively easy way is to use ffmpeg with the -target ntsc-dvd option. 
You may have to deinterlace to get acceptable quality and even so it may 
be lacking.

Bolek


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