[MPlayer-users] Interlaced NTSC -> PAL DVD

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:26:38AM +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> here is the situation: my neighbour has a MiniDV camera
> that he bought when he was in Canada. The camera obviously
> produces NTSC interlaced material.
> 
> He asked me to create DVDs from his recordings but
> since we are in Hungary, I would like to make PAL DVDs.

All I can say is that there's no correct way to convert interlaced
video between standards. You'll always get something very ugly. :(
If your TV / DVD support NTSC (apparently many modern ones in Europe
do) you'll be much better off leaving it as-is.

Rich