PAL to NTSC

[hoozdapimp]

sorry guys, I searched and I did find some results, but I think most of the posts I found were trying to do more complex things than I want to do.

My quest is simple. I want to convert a PAL dvd to NTSC. Can someone please post a solution including what program to use to rip the dvd (does the ripper matter or will anyone do?), how to redo the audio, and how to convert the pal video to ntsc video.

as far as the audio, i assume once I have the AC3 file ripped, i can just use besweet gui and use the convert 25fps to 23.97fps? or do I need 29.97 fps?

thanks in advance,
Scott

--Sorry, even though I've been around here awhile, I've never been to this area, as I just now acquired my dvd burner and was previously meandering in the svcd forums :)

[MvB]

My quest is simple. I want to convert a PAL dvd to NTSC. Can someone please post a solution including what program to use to rip the dvd (does the ripper matter or will anyone do?), how to redo the audio, and how to convert the pal video to ntsc video.


There are a lot of threads out there how to convert a PAL DVD (interlaced and non-interlaced) to NTSC. I don't have the time at the moment to figure out a full solution, but i can give you some hints that might work:

1) Rip the DVD to your harddisk. (Smartripper (my favourite) or dvd decrypter)

2) Extract the ac3 stream you want from the vobs if you haven't done so before (smartripper can extract streams). You can use dvd2avi for that task, or vobrator, or vstrip or some other utilities.

3) For non interlaced movies (all cinema movies):Fire up an avisynth script which does at least the following:
- resize from 720x576 to 720x480
- AssumeFPS(23.976,true)

4) Feed the output into CCE with your favourite settings

5) You'll get the reencoded mpeg2 stream on your harddisk.

6) squeeze the stream through pulldown.exe to get a 29.997 fps stream for your player.

Audio:

Take besweet and slow the ac3 to 23.976 fps. Warning: I experienced some clicking noises after conversion in the resulting ac3 stream.
I don't know how i can get rid of this, but at the moment i can't see a solution for this.

Now you should be able to use the video and audio stream in your favourite DVD authoring software.

Sorry for being so short an words but i don't have the time to get further into the matter.

[hoozdapimp]

Originally posted by MvB
Sorry for being so short an words but i don't have the time to get further into the matter. [/B]

this is more than enough to get a good start, if not complete my task! thanks a bunch for your reply!