On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:49:52 -0500, David C. chipman wrote: > Hi Paul, > > First of all, I'm no video DVD expert, but I'm not sure > the video format (PAL/NTSC) matters. It's a digital compressed video > format (MPEG2, IIRC) on the DVD. It's the player that does the Digital > to analogue conversion (where PAL-vs-NTSC comes into play). None > of that, of course prevents regional encoding (a different issue), of > course. Later, > > -David Chipman > Here are some programs that report the format: lsdvd, tcprobe, mplayer, qvamps, probably others. For lsdvd install streamdvd-streamanalyze from livna. For tcprobe install transcode from livna as well (very powerful).