Convert PAL DVD to NTSC DVD in Linux
My instructions are derived from the following guide. The only changes are as follows:
- I need to copy my VOB files off the DVD into one giant file by doing a
vobcopy -l -t myvideoto copy the files from the DVD to the present directory. The DVD will already have to be decrypted - I’m ripping from a PAL DVD to an NTSC DVD, not from an AVI or MPEG file. Therefore, I need to point to my .vob file like as follows:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:480,harddup -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=18:aspect=16/9 -ofps 30000/1001 -o myvideo.mpg myvideo.vob - If you are ripping TV episodes, you will probably want to separate each episode into chapters, so note the times in which each episode begins and ends and enter this into your dvd.xml file
