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Old 2006-04-02, 09:49 AM
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Re: How can I find out if a dvd is NTSC or PAL?

I use CyberLink PowerDVD, if you click on configuration>information while
the DVD (or files on your HD) are playing you'll get all the info you need.

Here's an example from "The Who - Houston Summit 1975"

Player Information:
Player Region Code: Not Specified
Current Drive: *:
Title Region Code: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, All

Display Information:
Video Mode: Bob
Display Mode: DirectDraw
FourCC Code: YUY2
Surface Type: Overlay

Video Attributes:
Video compression mode: MPEG-2
TV system: 525/60 (NTSC)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Display Mode: Both Pan&scan and Letterbox
Source picture resolution: 720x480 (525/60)
Frame Rate: 30.00
Source picture letterboxed: Not letterboxed
Bitrate: 3.80Mbps

Audio Attributes:
Audio Coding mode: Dolby Digital
Sampling Rate: 48kHz
Audio application mode: Not specified
Number of Audio channels: 6
Bitrate: 448 Kbps
Number of Audio streams: 1

Subpicture Attribute: Not Available

Hardware Information:
Processor: Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU running at 1994 MHz
3DNow! Technology: Not Detected
Enhanced 3DNow! Technology: Not Detected
3DNow! Professional Technology: Not Detected
IA MMX Technology: In Use
IA Streaming SIMD Extensions: In Use
IA SSE 2: In Use
Video Accelerator: DirectX VA (not in use)
Multispeaker Audio Device: SoundMAX Digital Audio (not in use)
SPDIF Output Device: Not Detected
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