Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not sure who is replying to whom, but I'll take another shot at it. It is true that the disks are encoded with a geographic zone and a chip inside a player can decide not to play a disk from another zone. The standard is designed to work like this, although as some have said there are ways around this. It is true that what is encoded onto a DVD is just bits. Those bits are decoded by the DVD player into analog video signals. If a particular piece of video is recorded in the NTSC (American) standard with 525 lines running at 30 frames per second it will not play on an ordinary European DVD player with PAL circuitry (625 lines at 25 fps) unless it is specifically designed to do so. If it could play the video the TV or monitor would not recognize it unless it was a special, multi-standard, TV. A computer with a DVD player in it could probably play back video recorded with either standard. The DVD authoring software insists that if you are going to make a PAL disc you supply it with PAL video. It won't convert it for you. Mike D - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:53 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV > Sorry Mark K.. not true... the disks are universal. > > There is a video encoder ( an IC Chip) inside the player that data stored on > the disks as ones and zeros ( only!) and encodes to SECAM/PAL/NTSC, etc..... > The player must be programmed for the market.... > > > Mike D said.... > > I've tried to import NTSC video into a DVD authoring program set for PAL > and > > it won't take it. > > > > Mike D > > Mark.. I do not understand this.. please repeat in different terms.... you > tried to take video from a ? ( TV Tuner, DVD Disk, Tape???) and > put it into a computer? > > > Frank > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html