widescreen on computer but full screen on tv

[Nosey249]

My wife died in October and the funeral and grave side service was recorded, I have converted the dv to dvd with menus, when I play it back on the computer it looks great, and plays back in wide screen, but when it is played on a set top player it plays in full screen.

is there anyway to force the player to play in widescreen or am I doing something wrong when I am authoring the dvd?

[edDV]

My wife died in October and the funeral and grave side service was recorded, I have converted the dv to dvd with menus, when I play it back on the computer it looks great, and plays back in wide screen, but when it is played on a set top player it plays in full screen.

is there anyway to force the player to play in widescreen or am I doing something wrong when I am authoring the dvd?

By "full screen on the TV" do you mean the sides are being chopped off or are you seeing the picture horizontally squashed?

[guns1inger]

The DVD Player set up menu should have a section on how a disc is displayed. The choices are usually

Pan & Scan (or P&S, Fullscreen)
Matted Letterbox ( or Letterbox)
Widescreen (or 16:9)

As you have a widescreen TV, it should be set to widescreen. If the DVD is marked as widescreen, it will be displayed as such.

Computers can be more forgiving of poorly authored discs. I have studio discs that exhibit this same behaviour becuase they have not be properly authored as 16:9 (thanks, Paramount)

[lordsmurf]

<nevermind>

[Nosey249]

I am assuming it is wide screen, the sides are chopped off on the regular tv, I used my camera today and checked to see if it was set to a "wide screen" effect and the 16:9 is turned off.

I haven't tried yet to force the player to play the dvd as a wide screen, but, I am giving these dvd's to family and don't want to have to explain to everyone how to make it work to look right..

any suggestions

[dun4cheap]

Well if you really wanted to force it you could change the IFO files to 16:9 amd Auto Letter box. You would need to use IFOEDIT for this.


Sorry to hear about your wife.