Automatic Anamorphic Stretching in DVD studio Pro

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

pheo

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

xeaglecrest@att.net

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> 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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