How to check whether a video DVD has the format PAL?

[David Corrigan]

You are partially correct. The NTSC & PAL formats define electrical
characteristics of the video signal, but they also define frame rate
and image dimensions. Xine or mplayer might be able to indicate NTSC
or PAL formatting.

David

On 1/20/07, David C. chipman <dchipman at ican.net> wrote:
>         Hi Paul,
>
>                 First of all, I'm no video DVD expert, but I'm not sure
> the video format (PAL/NTSC) matters. It's a digital compressed video
> format (MPEG2, IIRC) on the DVD. It's the player that does the Digital
> to analogue conversion (where PAL-vs-NTSC comes into play). None
> of that, of course prevents regional encoding (a different issue), of
> course. Later,
>
>                         -David Chipman
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