Playing back PAL DVDs via SageTV - is it even possible?

[fbures]

I have a PAL DVD.
I can play it back on my TV (TV is connected to my PC via 7600GT video card) using MS Media Player or RealPlayer. However, when I try to play it back using SageTV, the SageTV crashes horribly.
Questions:
1. Is it even possible to play back PAL DVD using SageTV's Play DVD function?
2. If yes, what settings should be set to facilitate this?

Thanks
Frank

[cychou]

Originally Posted by fbures

I have a PAL DVD.
I can play it back on my TV (TV is connected to my PC via 7600GT video card) using MS Media Player or RealPlayer. However, when I try to play it back using SageTV, the SageTV crashes horribly.
Questions:
1. Is it even possible to play back PAL DVD using SageTV's Play DVD function?
2. If yes, what settings should be set to facilitate this?

Thanks
Frank

I live in Sydney, Australia, and all my DVD are PAL. SageTV play them quite happily.


Vincent

[fbures]

Perhaps I was not clear enough.

I am talking about playing PAL DVD's via SageTV on an NTSC TV.

Cheers
Frank

[nielm]

There should be no reason why PAL DVDs should cause Sage to crash (I assume playing NTSC DVDs do not crash it). In theory nothing *should* cause Sage to crash

Check the DVD renderer/decoder settings to confirm that they are set to reasonable values; check the sage log, and maybe the crash log (hs_err_pid_xxx.log in Sage directory) to get an idea of why the crash occured.

[mattdcknsn]

I have successfully played PAL DVDs through to an NTSC TV with no problem. I actually didn't realize it was a PAL DVD until I ejected it. No extra configuration or anything. Not sure whats wrong.