How to check whether a video DVD has the format PAL?

[Paul Smith]

On 1/21/07, Amadeus W. M. <amadeus84 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >               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,
>
> 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).

Thanks to all. Tcprobe outputs

frame rate: -f 25.000 [25.000] frc=3

So, it is now clear that the format of my video dvd is PAL.

Paul