NTSC or PAL DVD, how do you tell?

[MackemX]

can anyone tell me a simple way to determine whether a DVD is PAL or NTSC by checking out the IFO data?

you'd be helping me with the stripping tool, so maybe a donation would be in order for the help :D

cheers

[Lord of the Discs]

Well, that´s really easy:

Just open the movie´s IFO and it´s right there in lower window:

Title Set (Movie) attributes:
Video: MPEG-2 720x480 (NTSC) (NTSC 525/60) (4:3) (not specified perm.display)

[MackemX]

Originally posted by Lord of the Discs
Well, that´s really easy:

Just open the movie´s IFO and it´s right there in lower window:

Title Set (Movie) attributes:
Video: MPEG-2 720x480 (NTSC) (NTSC 525/60) (4:3) (not specified perm.display)

lol

I guess I didn't word it right. I'm wanting to look at the hex values :)

I'll have a look later anyway but I just thought one of the guys will
know it straight away

cheers

[Lord of the Discs]

And I was wondering why do you ask such simple things ;)

[2COOL]

To all,

If you people read MackemX's first post, he needs to find an easy way for his upcoming automated stripping tool to figure out on its own if the movie in question is a PAL or NTSC. We all know how to find this out manually.

[MackemX]

when I seen you had posted 2COOL, I thought the answer was gonna be here :(

it may just appear in time I suppose, I will have a look properly when I get the time, I just wanted to see if someone already knew

cheers

p.s. where you been?

[mpucoder]

Sorry, I've been distracted. In any .ifo look at offset 0x100 or 0x200, bit 4. 0=NTSC, 1=PAL. Bit 5 is technically part of this field, and should always be 0.
0x100 is the menu video attributes, 0x200 is the title video attributes. They should be the same for this one bit, and the entire DVD should be the same, but I've heard of mixed discs.

[2COOL]

Originally posted by mpucoder
Sorry, I've been distracted. In any .ifo look at offset 0x100 or 0x200, bit 4. 0=NTSC, 1=PAL. Bit 5 is technically part of this field, and should always be 0.
0x100 is the menu video attributes, 0x200 is the title video attributes. They should be the same for this one bit, and the entire DVD should be the same, but I've heard of mixed discs. Or if you have a 4# at 0x100 or 0x200, that means it's NTSC. If you have a 5#, then it's PAL.

[MackemX]

thanks for your help guys ;)

MackemX

[mpucoder]

That is true for MPEG2, if MPEG1 is used the byte will be 0# for NTSC or 1# for PAL. Just AND it with 0x30.
NTSC = (byte[0x100] & 0x30) == 0
PAL = (byte[0x100] & 0x30) == 0x10