Posted by Bill's News on 12/29/07 00:41

<xeaglecrest@att.net> wrote in message
news:4772831C.6D9A@att.net...
> pheo wrote:
>>
>> I recently recorded a widescreen television program from my
>> HDTV tuner
>> to my dvd recorder. The resulting disk works great playing it
>> on that
>> machine and displayed on my widescreen TV. I wanted to play
>> it later
>> on my regular bedroom TV on a different DVD player. I get a
>> squished
>> anamorphic display that cannot be corrected by changing
>> display
>> settings for the dvd player. It also plays squished when
>> played on my
>> computer.
>>
>> I am assuming there is nothing that can be done with this
>> disk to make
>> it work on those things, but is there a way I convert it in
>> DVD Studio
>> Pro, so that it will automatically spread like the commercial
>> ones
>> do?
>>
>> I have been able to rip the M2V's and AC3's from the disk,
>> but don't
>> know what setting to use to get the result I want. The
>> choices in DVD
>> Studio Pro, are 4:3, 16:9 pan-scan, 16:9 letterbox, and 16:9
>> pan-scan
>> & letterbox.
>>
>> pw
>
> As you have discovered, some DVD recorders do not properly set
> the 16:9
> flag.
> Panasonics only do it on RAM discs. What you need to do, is
> re-author
> the
> the disc with a program like TMPGEnc DVD Author. It will
> allow you to
> set the 16:9 flag so the disc will play properly on an older
> TV. A side
> benefit is you will be able to add a decent menu and place
> chapter marks
> exactly where you want them. The video is not re-encoded, so
> the video
> quality remains the same as the original disc.
> -Bill

Or use a free program, such as IFOEdit, to merely change the
flag - a few seconds of processing time.

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