I then created a simple custom xml file (called 'customfile.xml') to use with the program dvdauthor. Once complete, and having saved the resynchronized audio/video, I used " idvid" from the tovid package, to confirm my avidemux operation did not impact the dvd compliant mpeg formt. To determine audio video sync, I used a scene where a door was slammed, and also used a scene where a lot of people were talking, with their mouths clearly visible in mouthing the words at the same time as the audio to ensure I had the sync correct.
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The audio had desync'd by 750 miliseconds from the video, so I loaded the friendsdvd.mpg video into avidemux, and then used avidemux to resync the audio and video (took 30 minutes of trial and error to get the sync right - I had to make a 750 msec change), being careful to save in mpeg format. The command line I used was:Ĭode: tovid -dvd -ntsc -normalize -in rippedvideo.avi -out friendsdvdThat created a video called friendsdvd.mpg I then, from a konosle with tovid, converted the avi title track to NTSC mpeg (with tovid - took a few hours ) with a resulting 3 GB file called "friendsdvd". I initially inserted the PAL DVD in my laptop, and with k9copy ripped the title track (being careful in k9copy to select title track and the German language track) to my laptop's hard drive (with k9copy - took about 40 minutes ) to an avi format (I called the file "rippedvideo.avi").
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The movie was in PAL format, and after determining she only cared about the "title" track, I agreed to convert her DVD movie to NTSC format that would play in a North American DVD player My laptop is a European laptop, so it can play European region DVDs with out a problem. Last week while visiting my mother in North America, I was asked by a friend of my mothers (a German lady in her mid-80's) if I could change a DVD she had received from relatives in Germany, such that it could play on her North American DVD player.