I needed to convert a small video from PAL to NTSC.
Supposedly the dvd players in Canada is not multi-region
and wont support PAL. bah.
Fortunately the video is already on a DVD so I dont have
to worry about getting the hardware to capture it...
So Im trying out ffmpeg.
This is the command which I figured should work:
ffmpeg -i video_ts/vts_01_1.vob -target ntsc-dvd -r '30000/1001' -acodec copy ntsc.mpg
The .vob file is the original video,
the -target ntsc-dvd hopefully uses the NTSC resolution (720x480).
-r changes the frames per second from 25fps to 29.999 fps
and the -acodec copy is suppose to just copy over the audio.
The process took about 10minutes or so for a 11minute video
with alot of strange messages.
After it was done, xine played the video perfectly,
but the audio was just white noise.
Anyway, dvdauthor was next, and since I just need something simple,
Im just using the command line to generate the DVD structure:
dvdauthor ntsc.mpg -o ntsc-dvd
which will have the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS structures within the ntsc-dvd directory.
So now Ill try to figure out the audio problem...
yk.
