pal/ntsc question

[Glanz]

I live in north america so all of the movies that i deal with are in ntsc, but if i wanted to encode a pal dvd would that divx file still play on my tv if i were to send it out to a tv. ok this may be a stupid question, srry

The reason is because i am going to buy a dvd on ebay so that i can encode it into divx and watch the movie. The dvd is out of print in the united states but i can get it from somewhere like great britan.

[RaVeN__thecrow]

look, i'm not 100% sure about this but it will most probably play just fine. I mean, I recently downloaded a trailer at ntsc format (29.97 fps) and using my graphic's card video-out i saw it on my tv and it played just fine... The signal sent through the graphics card just depicts what is shown on your pc-screen and the format of the video makes no difference. On the other hand i'm not 100% sure about this but as i said earlier i think there wan't be any problem. IF (and that's a big if), you DO buy the dvd and have a problem sending the signal, you can always use a filter during encoding that will change the pal into ntsc (i think virtualdub has a filter like that)

[setarip]

If your DVD ROM can read the DVD (different region), for DivX conversion and playback on your PC, it sghould make no difference if you're dealing with PAL or NTSC - your conmputer's multisynch monitor should be abkle to handle it...