WTF? Wrong Aspect Ratio on DVD!

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WTF? Wrong Aspect Ratio on DVD!

Postby RIPmyprsoul » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:10 pm

When I burn my video files to DVD, before I burn them they are the right aspect ratio, but when I burn them onto DVD and watch them on a TV they are widened up and down so that people are like sticks...how do I add letterboxing or whatever to my files so that the DVD will know the right aspect ratio?
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Postby Tiiscool » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:58 pm

Hello,

- PC: square Pixel
- TV: 'rectangular pixels'

EADFAG- Aspect Ratio

Check also the AR-Flag at the encoder.

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Postby Qyot27 » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:14 pm

If the videos are supposed to be 4:3, then there's nothing wrong - if they are 16:9, though, then set the aspect flag either in your encoding program to 16:9 or do it the manual way:

*Encode video as 4:3 - for ratios which cleanly equal 16:9, then the image should look 'fullscreen'; for ones which equal a different aspect ratio, find what height the video should be if the width is 848, taking mod16 into consideration for both the video portion AND the letterboxing, and add the appropriate letterboxing with either VirtualDub or Avisynth. You'll still want to have the width set at 720, though. During the encoding process, DO NOT allow the program to mux the video and audio together unless you set the AR with the encoder - this is more for convenience as ReStream only accepts .m2v files.

*Use ReStream to fix the AR of the .m2v from 4:3 to 16:9. Mux the fixed 16:9 file with the audio you plan to use and give the resultant .mpg to your DVD authoring program.
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Postby RIPmyprsoul » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:44 pm

Thanks for your replies...
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