VCD PAL tv systems

kung fu guykung fu guy
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I plan on working on a VCD movie for a friend in asia but I'm in North America. Do vcds need to be encoded in PAL format? I thought vcds were regionless. I bought a commerical vcd movie from Hong Kong and it works on NTSC systems. Besides, how would I test a PAL encoded VCD here in North America.

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    regreg Posts: 832member
    The vcd player that I use is Macvcd. http://www.mireth.com/text/macvcd_sp.html. Works great.



    reg
  • Reply 2 of 3
    gardenofearthlydelightsgardenofearthlydelights Posts: 963member
    Most DVD players take care of the NTSC/PAL conversions automatically. I play NTSC SVCDs on my American DVD player to a PAL television, with no problems.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    k_munick_munic Posts: 357member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Kung Fu Guy

    I plan on working on a VCD movie for a friend in asia but I'm in North America. Do vcds need to be encoded in PAL format? I thought vcds were regionless. I bought a commerical vcd movie from Hong Kong and it works on NTSC systems. Besides, how would I test a PAL encoded VCD here in North America.



    vcd are regionless (DVD code = 0), but are specified in NTSC or PAL



    most DVD players (standalone) outside the us do the conversion, play both standards.



    on a mac try VLC (versiontracker)......
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