GUIDE: CONVERT PAL TO NTSC

hi i just want to know the point of convertin movie files from nstc to pal... I lived in Venezuela and moved to europe and i brought some dvd movie copies (they lose their zones) and I can view them in my Pc with power dvd (original version for spain) and in my xbox...

Besides I have some old Avi movies from the States and I still wacht them here..

 

it says "access violation at address 7c911e58 in module 'ntdll.dll'. read of address 00000000" when I try to convert my PAL .vobs to NTSC form exactly as was posted in the initial thread. What the heck does that mean?

 

to add to my previous message, what I'm trying to do -- I downloaded a DVD in PAL format, and have an American PC that I got from Dell. The .VOB's do not work to burn to CDs. Could that be why? Would I need to convert them to a NTSC type .VOB for them to burn correctly?

 

yeah....sorry, I meant DVD, not CD.

 

I'm sorry to be so dense, I'm another newbie.

OK, I'm looking at the DivX to DVD converter window.

I don't see anything that says "input."

I tried browsing in the Source File window, but it didn't like my VOB files.

Help.

 

I'm having a similar problem as a few other folks...I've pointed the program to my source file using every .VOB in the folder. It does convert from Pal to NTSC, but I'm not getting any of the other files associated w/ a DVD(.bup, .ifo). i'm also getting the memory access violation when attempting to point to the 1st .vob file, as described above (Video_Ts.vob in this case)...any assistance greatly appreciated.
cheers
Joe

 

[bold]DVD PAL to NTSC conversion.[/bold]
Please forgive my denseness, but my first VOB, is: [bold]VIDEO_TS.VOB[/bold] This appears to be only the menu.

When one poster stated that they chose the 1st VOB, is it possible that they meant, "[bold]VTS_01_1.VOB[/bold]"?

Sadly, this program comes without any documentation. Some suggestion, or assurance that it will convert the ENTIRE DVD, would be helpful.

Thanks in advance. :--)

 

Based on all the responses and questions about converting PAL to NTSC using this software, I thought I would try to provide a few more details on what I did. Unfortunately, I have already sent the original DVD and the converted NTSC copy back to my elderly mother so I can’t try it again or confirm some details. Please keep in mind that I am a complete newbie at this and I have no idea if this software or approach will work for others or with other DVD's.

I received an old movie "A Town Called Alice" on DVD in PAL format that was sent to my mother from a friend in Australia. Since the DVD didn’t work in her player (although it would on my computer) I downloaded this software to see if I could convert it for her to NTSC.

Through windows explorer, I could see that there were only 2 directories on the DVD: Audio_TS
Video_TS

The Audio_TS folder was empty.

The Video_TS folder had several files ending in *.BUP, *.IFO, and *.VOB

I created a similar directory structure on my computer under a folder called “A Town Called Alice”.

Using the Divx to DVD converter software I selected the following:
As the source: …Video_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
As the target: …Video_TS\ (on my harddrive)
Aspect: Force 4:3
Standard: Force NTSC 29.97 Fps

I then hit the “Convert” button and waited until it was done.

The software created the following on my harddrive:

Directory of C:\My Documents\My DVDs\A Town Like Alice

09/20/2005 05:03 PM <DIR> .
09/20/2005 05:03 PM <DIR> ..
08/28/2005 03:10 PM <DIR> AUDIO_TS
08/27/2005 11:07 PM <DIR> VIDEO_TS
1 File(s) 22,008 bytes

Directory of C:\My Documents\My DVDs\A Town Like Alice\AUDIO_TS

08/28/2005 03:10 PM <DIR> .
08/28/2005 03:10 PM <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes

Directory of C:\My Documents\My DVDs\A Town Like Alice\VIDEO_TS

08/27/2005 11:07 PM <DIR> .
08/27/2005 11:07 PM <DIR> ..
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 6,144 VIDEO_TS.BUP
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 6,144 VIDEO_TS.IFO
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 59,392 VTS_01_0.BUP
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 59,392 VTS_01_0.IFO
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 1,073,739,776 VTS_01_1.VOB
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 1,073,739,776 VTS_01_2.VOB
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 1,073,739,776 VTS_01_3.VOB
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 566,202,368 VTS_01_4.VOB
8 File(s) 3,787,552,768 bytes


I then used Nero to burn a DVD_R with all three folders and files to something like:

f:\A Town Like Alice\
f:\A Town Like Alice\AUDIO_TS
f:\A Town Like Alice\VIDEO_TS
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 6,144 VIDEO_TS.BUP
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 6,144 VIDEO_TS.IFO
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 59,392 VTS_01_0.BUP
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 59,392 VTS_01_0.IFO
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 1,073,739,776 VTS_01_1.VOB
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 1,073,739,776 VTS_01_2.VOB
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 1,073,739,776 VTS_01_3.VOB
08/27/2005 11:07 PM 566,202,368 VTS_01_4.VOB


As I recall, I did not get the menus, but the DVD_R played successfully both on my computer and on the player.

Not much else I can add, hope this was helpful.

 

Thanks for your quick reply.

I kind of answered my own question.

I chose VTS_01_1.VOB as the input file. After conversion, I then had 2 VOB files in a folder called, video_ts. It plays alright, but I havent burned it, to play on my standalone yet.

*edit*
Yeah, no menus. Ill keep workin on that notion.
Aside from that, this method DOES infact work. A heartfelt thanks to all who helped educate me.
peace

 

Help!

When I put the vob files in the input section. The system says "Invalid floating point operation" . And won't let me convert. Even though I ignored the prompt, and tried to convert the files anyway. It didn't do anything.

All other files work (avi. etc... I just converted a pal avi file) except all vob files won't work. All these dvd files play fine that I'm trying to convert. I know because they play in windows media player on my computer. they are not corrupted or anything. Just won't let me convert the file because I keep getting this prompt.

Any ideas? Possible bug? Microsoft getting wise to us?

 

I just had a quick question:

Once a PAL DVD is successfully converted to NTSC, is there a downgrade in video quality? I am wondering if a drop in quality may be equated to the actual conversion process, rather then the underlying formats.

Thanks

 

ok, thanks for the response

 

Well, it worked for me, but I had to select the VTS_06_1.VOB,
which is the first real VOB of the movie I wanted to convert and then I got VTS_06_1.VOB,
VTS_06_2.VOB and VTS_06_3.VOB and the IFOs and BUPs, just
the movie, no menus.
I guess, it would be a different VOB file for different DVDs, depending
what is on them.

Once burned to a disk, my PAL DVD worked on NTSC DVD-player and TV,
but the AUDIO was OUT of sync, video was delayed by a second
or so, which is quite annoying. Nothing jerky, video was perfect
as was the sound, except the out of sync.

Would the new, full and paid version work better?

 

Hey,
Just got this Canopus Procoder 2 and it worked awesome. Picture quality is great, audio is great. Screw all the other stuff.

However PAL dvd > NTSC dvd takes a while. It's in realtime. But I don't care, the quality is awesome. Just let the program run.

Just wanted to share the word

 

*Progress report*
I have just tried Canopus ProCoder. This is quite an impressive program.
However, I am sorry to announce, that my results were nearly the same as when I used, VSO Divx-to-DVD.

Again, there are no longer menus. The quality is noticably diminished. The problem may be that I used the "Wizard" rather than exact greater control over the end product.

Lastly, it took over 6 hours for ProCoder to convert this 1.5hr vid. VSO took less than 30min.

I hope that this info helps in some way.

 

Hi,

Did anyone had audio and video out of sunc? The old rev of
the program does a good job, except that sound is out of sync.
I tried the new release, on a trial basis, and I get a part
of the movie pefect, but other two thirds have audio like
5x the speed. Basically , it unsable for PAL to NTSC conversion...
Am I doing something wrong or forgeting to config something?

It seems some of you were succesfull....

 

i did this method, but selected everything to be converted. forced 16x9 and ntsc. now my file size is like 14gb (um, yea no fittin that onto a watchable dvd). So, i experimented a lil w/ choosing only the first vob. prob is i have 2 of them, on starts 1_0 and 1_1 and the other is 2_0 and 2_1. so which would i pick? and whats w/ this huge file size? Is that common?

 

Just tried VSO's Divx to DVD. The quality is not that good. It's pretty fast and good for computer type quality. Not good if you want dvd quality.

Canopus takes a long time, but the quality is better for dvd's, in my opinion. And you could burn straight to nero.

I'm also experimenting with Song Vegas 6. Pretty impressive program, too. Let's you save in MPEG2, which I think is the same as dvd quality. I'll let you know the results. Also Ulead moviefactory lets you import individual VOB files.

I'm experimenting a lot here. Hopefully one day the whole world will have one region dvd's. NTSC and PAL is a scam.