I'm making a DVD from source material of about 4.85GB in avi format. After shrinking it down to fit on a DVD+R (using VIDEO_TS folder without any fancy menus), would it be possible to make it both PAL & NTSC compatible? Or will I need to take special precautions or size the videos smaller so they will look OK on both PAL & NTSC? I'm new to this, and will read the FAQ but a simple yes or no would be helpful.
The 'Region' of the DVD only applies to commercial movie disks. A burned DVD has no region code (or is region free, or all regions.It's all semantics). The real issue is North America uses the NTSC video standard and most of the world is PAL. A.F.A.I.K, the disk is either burned as PAL or NTSC - not both. I will say though (from personal experience) that a DVD burned as NTSC will also work in PAL players. The converse, does not apply.
thanks man! Another question or two. I know that PAL has a higher overall res than NTSC. NTSC frame rate is faster though. When played on a PAL dvd player, NTSC sound is off. How to correct this? Should i slow down fps to PAL standard of 50fps? and how to encode video so this comes out as widescreen? The current format of the video is 640x480. I want to cut sides of picture off and have as little on top/bottom.
