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Old 06-14-2006, 06:15 PM   #1
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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?
 
Old 06-14-2006, 07:24 PM   #2
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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/
 
  


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