pal dvds...

I have a dvd, its PAL, I know you can't technically convert it to NTSC, but does anyone at least have a work around? it plays on my moms dvd player, but not on either of mine. any thoughts?

On most DVD players, it allows you to change the decooding format 5 times. So, if you play it on your mac, you should be able to change the decoder to PAL. Let me know if that works/doesn't work.

no, my mac plays them fine without asking or anything, more than 5 times at least Ive alternated, so thats not it. my moms dvd player has a button that says ntsc/pal, so you can choose, and they work fine on hers when I hit that button.

They've removed this functionality from the majority of US market home DVD players because they don't want you getting prerelease or other region versions of their movies. You may still be able to find some of the older ones that were mulitregion (and can convert PAL to NTSC).

can you rip it and reburn??? just a thought i really have no clue
-chris

you'd have to convert it to ntsc, then downsize it to fit on a DVD5 and then burn it, but it could be done

if I can convert it to ntsc, I can get it onto a dvd, but how can I convert it?

few quick googles returned several mac products for just this sort of thing.

couldnt this be done manually? my brothers german teacher has the PAL version of titanic and a few others she'd like to veiw on an american DVD player. Couldnt i just DVD to AVI, throw it in FCP and export it as NTSC?

oooh!

i set my DVD-player to region 9, witch is a multi

@madskillz man: yea, but I need the menus and features, if you make it an avi, you lose that.
@ nightcrawler: PAL and NTSC have nothing to do with region, not really, except that many Pal are not region 1 as they are from europe and other countries.