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[guest111]

This is what PowerDVD reads while playing a PAL file from my Hard Drive
Display Information :

Display Mode : DirectDraw
FourCC Code : YUY2
Surface Type : Overlay
Video Attribute :
Video compression mode : MPEG-1
Source picture resolution : 352x288 (625/50)
Frame Rate : 25.00
Bitrate : 1.12Mbps
Audio Attribute :
Audio Coding mode : MPEG-1
Sampling Rate : 44.1kHz
Number of Audio channels : 2
Bitrate : 224 Kbps.





While this shows the file info playing in my PowerDVD from the CD drive after the same file in my hard drive being burnt as VCD in PAL output

Display Information :
Video Mode : Weave
Display Mode : DirectDraw
FourCC Code : YUY2
Surface Type : Overlay
Video Attribute :
Video compression mode : MPEG-1
TV system : 625/50 (PAL)
Aspect Ratio : unknown = 1
Display Mode : reserved
Source picture resolution : 352x288
Frame Rate : 25.00
Source picture letterboxed : Not letterboxed
Bitrate : 1.15Mbps
Audio Attribute :
Audio Coding mode : MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 without extension bitstream
Sampling Rate : reserved = 2
Audio application mode : Not specified
Number of Audio channels : 2
Bitrate : 224 Kbps
Number of Audio streams : 1



What is more confusing is that I can play any of them in my second display using ATI all in wonder Radeon, on my NTSC TV. And if I play the VCD in my stand alone DVD player it plays it as NTSC. Any explanation??
I like to mention that I converted this PAL file from NTSC

[guest111]

To the experts:
These files are really PAL, the dvd player can play both PAL and NTSC