Posted by Kimba W. Lion on 12/26/79 11:29

"blackhole@aol.com" <blackhole@aol.com> wrote:

>I have two DVD copies of National Treasure. One has a full screen
>NTSC movie on it but the extras on it that have the treasure search
>game, etc., are all broken.
>
>I have a second DVD of the same movie where the extras work just fine,
>but the movie is in wide screen format.
>
>I would like to delete the wide screen movie and replace it with the
>full screen movie (sorry purists) to have a fully working DVD.
>
>I tried doing a direct replacement of the VOB movie files, and this sort
>of worked at first. But when I went to view the movie, it was squashed
>back down to wide screen, and naturally, everything in the movie was
>squat. So I figured I would have to use some sort of editor to do it.

Since most movies these days are shot full-frame and masked to widescreen in
the theater projector, your quest is not as outlandish as some faux-purists
may wish to make it seem. (I don't know the specifics about this particular
movie, however.)

If I understand your complaint about your re-made disc, try this: when you
go to play this movie, go into your player's setup and find the setting for
TV type. Change it to 16:9 or widescreen or something like that and see how
your movie looks. Naturally, you will have to change it back after you watch
this disc, but it could work.

IF that's not satisfactory, perhaps it will help to take your problem to
finer details. How is it that the extras on one disc are "broken" but the
movie plays? Is the disc physically damaged? Could it be player
incompatibility--that the disc will work on another player?

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