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rip pal dvd and re burn as ntsc

i recently bought a dvd that is region 2 encoded, and in PAL format. i can easily watch it on my computer, but not on the tv.

i was thinking of using acid rip to rip the dvd, then transcode to convert it to NTSC. however, i can't make heads or tails of how to use transcode. any suggestions?

Use ffmpeg, it's both much easier and faster. For example:

ffmpeg -i some.vob -y -target ntsc-dvd -aspect 16:9 -b 1800 some.mpg

You can then create a simple dvdauthor XML config file, for example, let's call it 'dvdauthor-simple.xml':

Code:

<dvdauthor dest="DVD">

  <vmgm />

  <titleset>

    <titles>

      <video format="ntsc" aspect="16:9" widescreen="nopanscan"/>

      <pgc>

        <vob file="some.mpg"/>

      </pgc>

    </titles>

  </titleset>

 </dvdauthor>

Create the DVD structure with:

dvdauthor -x dvdauthor-simple.xml

You now have a DVD directory in the current directory, which you can burn to disk with (where /dev/scd0 is your DVD burner device):

growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -dvd-video DVD/