[jon053]

have some home video's i converted to avi files. tryed using nero and it wouldnt work, and using sonic....i created one avi > dvd ncts (not sure what the letters were, it was either that or PAL) > any ways avi > dvd mpeg, and tried using sonic MY DVD but it didn't work...



any help to the quickest solution without losing quality would be greatly appreciated

[cheyenne821]

Real Player is what I use . It converts the file for you.. However there is a monthly fee but they have a 14 day free trial.. Once u sign up you will get the dvd burning option..

There maybe something better or easier out there.

[coastie65]

Hi Jon, If you have a PAL formatted disk, you will have to go to START>MY COMPUTER> Rt, CLICK on the OPTICAL DRIVE> PROPERTIES> Hardware Tab > Scroll down the list until you find your optical drive and click on it, then click on the region tab. You will have to set it for REGION 2 ( Germany , UK, France, or Greece ). It may or may not play as I haven't really tried it. coastie65

[smax013]

NTSC vs PAL is a TV format. The US and most of Asia (if I recall correctly) use NTSC TV formatting. Europe tends to use PAL. Generally speaking, PAL formatted disks will NOT play on US DVD stand alone DVD players (generally, computers can play either just fine)...and vice versa.



Then there is the issue of region coding. US is region 1. Thus, most US DVD players will only play region 1 (or region 0, which plays in all regions) DVDs. Again, computers can play any region, but most DVD software will have a "switch" for changing regions and many times, that switch can only be changed so many times before it "locks" in place to one region code.



There are DVD players that will play all regions and both NTSC and PAL disks, but they tend to be "special order" items.



Thus, it is possible that you created a successfully DVD, but in a format that is incompatible with your DVD player. Where are you located?



And then there is disk type. Some DVD players don't like DVD-Rs...some don't like DVD+Rs...some like neither.

[coastie65]

Hi smax, yeah, in Xp you can switch 5 times and then it is locked in to the final setting. You can plat it, but converting the Pal format to NTSC is a whole nother thing.