[junqbox]

Hi,

Have authored a couple of dvds in wdiescreen and can't get them to play on domestic dvd player in 4:3 letterbox. Is this an authoring issue or a dvd player issue.

Cheers,
junqbox

[tsantee]

Does this mean they are appearing as pan & scan on the 4:3 TV? How do they appear on when played on your Mac?

[junqbox]

Hi,

Plays fine on the Mac, on the TV the ends fall of the edge so you only see what happens in the 'centre' of the screen.

Cheers,
junqbox

tsantee, on Feb 5 2006, 08:59 PM, said:

Does this mean they are appearing as pan & scan on the 4:3 TV? How do they appear on when played on your Mac?

[tsantee]

I think this is an issue with how your DVD player is set up. There should be a setting in the player's set up menu to play 16x9 videos as either letterbox or as pan & scan when displayed on a 4:3 TV. You want the letterbox setting. The pan & scan setting fills up the screen and leaves the sides of the picture out of view. Since it is playing correctly on the Mac, I'm presuming the disc is authored correctly.

[kackles]

tsantee, on Feb 5 2006, 08:59 PM, said:

Does this mean they are appearing as pan & scan on the 4:3 TV? How do they appear on when played on your Mac?

hullo,

I am having same issue on 3 diff machines that all play the original correctly (letter box style) but the rip is full screen and no matter if I use toast or opocorn the aspect ration plays wrong on all my stand alone dvd players in the house

[tsantee]

kackles, on Feb 7 2006, 02:25 PM, said:

hullo,

I am having same issue on 3 diff machines that all play the original correctly (letter box style) but the rip is full screen and no matter if I use toast or opocorn the aspect ration plays wrong on all my stand alone dvd players in the house

Your situation is different that the other poster's issue. I believe you have one of those commercial DVDs that have both the pan & scan and widescreen versions on the disc. When you choose "movie only" with Toast's fit-to-DVD feature it is taking the pan & scan version instead of the widescreen version.

You need to take an few extra steps to get what you want.

1. Place the ripped VIDEO_TS folder on your desktop.
2. Select DVD video as the format in the Toast Video window (do not choose DVD video from VIDEO_TS).
3. Click the Media button to enter the Media Broswer. Select DVD with the top button. Then select the Title level with the lower button. The different titles on the ripped DVD appear in the lower window.
4. Select the widescreen version of your movie and drag it to the Video window. Toast now extracts the MPEG from the VIDEO_TS and writes it to the Roxio Converted Items folder.
5. You now can prepare the menu or choose No menu if you don't want one.
6. If the video will fit a single-layer disc you can now click the burn button. If it doesn't fit a single-layer disc choose Save as Disc Image from the File menu. After the image file has been written you can select it in the Toast Copy window and Toast can accomplish the Fit-to-DVD and burn your disc.

[junqbox]

Thanks for your help Tsantee. I'll have another intense read of the player manual and see what happens.

Cheers,
junqbox

[junqbox]

Worked great Tsantee, thanks for your help

junqbox