On 9/13/05, Amber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12-Sep-05, at 8:40 AM, Naftali Shani wrote: > > > While the TV format in most of western Europe is PAL (France being > > the exception with SECAM, and I think that most of the ex-soviet > > block countries followed the USSR by adopting this format - guess > > why), DVD file has nothing to do with it - the DVD player will > > convert the digital file to the proper TV format. > > > > I received a DVD from a country using PAL, and it played properly > > in my NTSC TV. > I am wondering Naftali, if you have a DVD player that is capable of > playing both ? > I tried a PAL formatted DVD in both my Powerbook and my regular > (NTSC) DVD player and neither one could read it. > > Perhaps you have access to different, better/newer equipment than I > do ? although my DVD player is only a year old.
Amber, a (free as in $$$ and speech) player called VLC may be able to play your PAL format DVDs. <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/> Eric. -- Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
