[ale] OT - DVD player NTSC/PAL Region Free

[James Sumners]

Even further, most "buy it off the shelf" NTSC DVD players do not
support playing back PAL video even if you unlock the player. That is
the issue I ran into. That isn't the case on a PC, though. On a PC the
DVD reader merely sends data to software for decoding. Mplayer doesn't
care what specification the video is encoded to, it will mangle it
well enough to display on any video output device (e.g. an NTSC
television).

On Dec 3, 2007 12:53 PM, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> Brian Pitts wrote:
> >
> > I believe PAL and NTSC videos are encoded with slightly different
> > resolutions, frame rates, etc. A DVD player that expects one format
> > might not decode the other properly.
> That's an understatement; the difference is a deal-breaker.  Scan
> converters are expensive pieces of professional equipment.  It's 25f/s
> vs. 30f/s and 625-line vs. 525-line.  The color encoding is quite different.
>
> I expect you could cobble together an amateur-grade converter in a PC,
> but then there's still the issue of having the mains power avaiable to
> support monitoring and other equipment.


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