Video Dvd- Green Line On Left Of Screen

[Zeigh]

Hello,

 

I recently burned a DVD from MP4 content and have a green line on the left of the screen when played in any DVD player. The vertical green line is actually made up of all tiny horizontal lines and constant throughout the video. The video before burning is in 16:9 format with 4:3 video and the typical horizontal black bars on either end. Here are the details of the system:

 

- Mac Pro 2x2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

- Mac OS 10.8.5

- Roxio Toast Titanium 10.0.9

- Apple iMovie 10.0.6

 

Here are the video details of the MP4 file before encoding:

 

- H.264/AVC

- 854 x 480

- 29.97 FPS

 

I have further tried different settings, optical drives, Macs, DVD players, and HDTV's without success. The problem never shows up when the DVD is played on a computer. I also burned the same MP4 file via iSkysoft Media Converter Deluxe and the issue disappeared, so this odd quirk is with Toast. PLEASE tell me that there is a way to get rid of this green line...

 

 

Peace,

Dr. Z.

[Zeigh]

UPDATE:

 

I must have tested with ten or so DVD's various encoding formats and other variables before I finally found a solution (at least as far as my particular project with iMovie 10x digitizing old Hi8 tapes into MP4 files). It was finally discovered that I could crop down the video in iSkysoft Media Converter Deluxe from 854 x 480 to 852 x 480 in solving the immediate issue of the "green line". Of course, this required an additional 15 minute step in the whole process, but at least it was a file Toast 10x could crunch onto a DVD and it would play well in any DVD player.

 

BTW, I also took this opportunity to crop the video down even further (to 852 x 476) and eliminate the typical line of distortion on the bottom of the screen that I have always seen on 4:3 analog video conversions. I never really considered cropping video down for this reason. What an added bonus to an otherwise frustrating troubleshooting charade!

 

 

Peace,

Dr. Z.

[tsantee]

My best guess is it is a problem with Toast's mpeg 2 encoder when a 16:9 video has black bars on the side. My sense is that should be in the overscan area so it doesn't appear on the TV screen. The only way I can think of to get rid of it is to use something else to encode the MPEG 2 video so Toast merely multiplexes rather than encodes the video when authoring the DVD.