When sending DVDs to other countries, please ensure that the format, NTSC or PAL,  is what the country uses, otherwise they may not be able to play back the DVDs.

Here is the “DVD NTSC/PAL Country List” for your reference.  Download the Free PDF here.

DVD NTSC/PAL Country List

Please leave a comment below to update us on any changes to the list.

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Here the list of fixes and improvements:

Version 1.6.1.0: 2009 06 14

• fixed 3-pass encoding
• audio is only encoded in last pass
• new: stream is now completely processed by the chameleon engine, completely reclocked, realigned, resegmented, refit
• FFmpeg no longer demuxes, parses or damages the stream in any way. FFmpeg still decodes video/audio/subtitles and encodes video/audio, mixes video, audio (scale, crop, deinterlace, subtitle harddup, resampling)
• FFmpeg still multiplexes streams (avi, mpg, mkv, 3gp, mov, …)
• fix: header synchronization (as found in AVP Requiem)
• new: added profiles for Mio DigiWalker c720
• new: added .dump file to investigate sync/transcoding issues
• new: added support for audio copy, video copy (lossless transfer)
• new: added support for 3gp v2
• fix: accept 3gp/3gps as alias names for tgp/tg2
• change: added correction in case audio starts later than video
• change: switched ac3 decoder to aggressive mode
• some minor fixes and improvements
• new: added MPEG2 re-encode/passthrough profiles
• change: Framerate setting (NTSCFrameRate/PALFrameRate/...) now allow exotic values, like 30 FPS.
• fix: resync issues with certain long-running movies
• change: improved x264 encoding quality
• change: improved handling of stage files (multi-pass encoding)
• fix: some issues with subtitle decoding
• fix: some minor issues with SVCD
• new: x264 featuring patch Psy-RD 0.6 by Jason Garrett-Glaser
• new: added option to save encoder log
• several minor fixes and improvements

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