PAL and NTSC on the same DVD?

Pcamp wrote on 6/22/2005, 11:12 AM

I have a client who says that their last video project was both PAL and NTSC versions on one DVD - is that possible?
Thank

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Chienworks wrote on 6/22/2005, 11:58 AM

Generally the practice is to put only NTSC on the disc. Most PAL players will playback and convert NTSC to PAL on the fly.

bStro wrote on 6/22/2005, 12:15 PM

PAL and NTSC is against the DVD specs and there are few, if any, DVD apps that will produce such a disc. The only way I know of to do this is to cheat -- ie, use a program like DVDPatcher to change the header info of one of the files so that the DVD app thinks it is the other format.

And you're sure that the client didn't just say / mean that the DVD was multi-region or region free? Regions (0, 1, 2, etc) are not the same animal as formats (PAL, NTSC, SECAM)?

Rob

Pcamp wrote on 6/22/2005, 1:22 PM

Thanks for your help. I will try the NTSC only route.
Paul