I read the comments in "Please Read This Before Posting." I do have the documentation for Windvd version 8. I downloaded that long ago and at that time I decided not to purchase it as Microsoft provided a free player that met my needs at the time.
I'm considering purchasing a PAL DVD, which has content I cannot obtain anywhere else. Since I am in America, I am concerned that there might be issues playing it with Windvd. While I see PAL mentioned here when I did a search, and in the documentation, there is very little information as to issues I might encounter. It's not even clear if Windvd supports PAL today - in some forums PAL shows up in an orange font. Some postings in some web sites suggest that some versions of WinDVD did support PAL, but it has been removed?
Downloading a newer evaluation won't help because I'm not going to purchase the PAL-encoded DVD unless there is a clear unambiguous statement that Windvd supports PAL. I¡¦m not sure I could play a new one anyway since the other download expired months (over a year?) ago.
By the way, I am an electrical engineer who does Digital Signal Processing, and I worked in a multimedia group for 7 years. I know the files are all MPEG-2, regardless of whether they are PAL or NTSC, and that the frame rates, timing, and lines per image is all that changes. I'm just concerned that I will purchase this DVD and for some reason it will not play with Windvd. I don't care about the minor timing differences with movies encoded in PAL, I'm not a quality fanatic, I'm just concerned I might not be able to play the DVD at all.
Thanks for your time,
Bill
Does WinDVD have any limitations when playing PAL DVDs?
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