HW: NTSC PAL MPEG

[William Duffy]

I'm thinking of doing something similar by converting the videos to the
MPEG-4 format (DIVX), which holds about the same amount of info that could
fit on DVD on a normal CD. The only drawback is that it won't play on
standalone DVD players.

William


----- Original Message -----
From: "linuxchaos" <linuxchaos at NETSCAPEONLINE.CO.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:15 AM
Subject: HW: NTSC PAL MPEG


> Chris -
>
> Theres loads of videos I'd like but due to different encoding this is
> going to be a bit tricky -
>
> My video plays NTSC would I need an NTSC TV? I think the video somehow
> fools the TV into accepting NTSC as PAL? I suppose thats a question for
> the video tech support, failing that we could do a swap and see if it
> works.
>
> What I want to do is encode the HW videos to MPEG DVD 9 then 1 concert
> would fit comfortably on a CD-R. That would get round the compatibility
> issue?
>
> Does anyone know of any MPEG encoding cards? I dont like the miro ones
> much are there any alternatives that would run on win2k or linux?
>
> sorry to veer "OFF" on that.
>
>
>     Ben
>