Mailing List Archive: Use HVR-1600 to convert NTSC analog to PAL MPEG-2 for DVD?

Use HVR-1600 to convert NTSC analog to PAL MPEG-2 for DVD?

Dec 2, 2012, 8:54 AM

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I'm converting some old NTSC analog camcorder recordings to DVD and am planning on making DVDs for friends & family in both the US and Poland. Maybe the Polish friends can play back NTSC DVDs, but maybe they can't. So I thought I'd send them both NTSC and PAL format DVDs. I'm wondering if it's possible to capture NTSC analog video and configure the HVR-1600's hardware encoder to output PAL MPEG-2 (720x576 at 25 fps). Or, am I better off using ffmpeg to convert NTSC MPEG-2 (720x480 at 29.97 fps) to PAL?

TIA,
Helen

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Re: Use HVR-1600 to convert NTSC analog to PAL MPEG-2 for DVD? [ In reply to ]

awalls at md

Dec 2, 2012, 9:25 AM

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faginbagin <mythtv@hbuus.com> wrote:

>I'm converting some old NTSC analog camcorder recordings to DVD and am
>planning on making DVDs for friends & family in both the US and Poland.
>Maybe the Polish friends can play back NTSC DVDs, but maybe they can't.
>So I thought I'd send them both NTSC and PAL format DVDs. I'm wondering
>if it's possible to capture NTSC analog video and configure the
>HVR-1600's hardware encoder to output PAL MPEG-2 (720x576 at 25 fps).
>Or, am I better off using ffmpeg to convert NTSC MPEG-2 (720x480 at
>29.97 fps) to PAL?
>
>TIA,
>Helen
>
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>ivtv-users mailing list
>ivtv-users@ivtvdriver.org
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The CX23418 MPEG encoder cannot do image reformatting nor transcoding.

You must use an external program such as ffmpeg.

Regards,
Andy

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Re: Use HVR-1600 to convert NTSC analog to PAL MPEG-2 for DVD? [ In reply to ]

mythtv at hbuus

Dec 2, 2012, 3:28 PM

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On 12/2/2012 12:25 PM, Andy Walls wrote:
> faginbagin<mythtv@hbuus.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm converting some old NTSC analog camcorder recordings to DVD and am
>> planning on making DVDs for friends& family in both the US and Poland.
>> Maybe the Polish friends can play back NTSC DVDs, but maybe they can't.
>> So I thought I'd send them both NTSC and PAL format DVDs. I'm wondering
>> if it's possible to capture NTSC analog video and configure the
>> HVR-1600's hardware encoder to output PAL MPEG-2 (720x576 at 25 fps).
>> Or, am I better off using ffmpeg to convert NTSC MPEG-2 (720x480 at
>> 29.97 fps) to PAL?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Helen
>
> The CX23418 MPEG encoder cannot do image reformatting nor transcoding.
>
> You must use an external program such as ffmpeg.
>
> Regards,
> Andy

Thanks for the quick reply, ffmpeg it is.

Helen

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