I received 2 concert dvds that seem to have the incorrect aspect ration on them. But I am having problems in making one of them 16:9 and I am hoping someone can offer any help / advice.
Show # 1
When watching the show there were black bars down both sides and it was clear that the picture was horizontally squashed to fit into 4:3 AR, as everyone was taller and thinner. When I changed my TV to 16:9 the picture corrected itself. I analysed the disc in gspot and it showed as 4:3 aspect ratio PAL dvd. So I used dvdpatcher to change the vob file to 16:9, I then re-authored the disc to add chapters and it plays fine and in the correct ratio with no squashing of the image.
Show # 2
Again I analysed it in gspot and it showed as 4:3 aspect ratio PAL dvd. However this dvd is window boxed. There looks to be no squashing or stretching on the picture and it has black bars horizontally and vertically. When I change my tv to display in 16:9 it looks as though the image is stretched horizontally and the people seem shorter and fatter. I had hoped to use dvdpatcher to change the aspect ratio to 16:9, but all this does when I put it in to the DVD authoring package (tmpgenc) is to make make the picture the correct width for 16:9 but it squashes it vertically and again everyone seems fatter.
Is there anything that can be done to this second disc, to make it play at 16:9 but with everything at the correct ratio without any distortion to the people? Or am I stuck with what essentially seems like a 16:9 picture but within a 4:3 AR?
I don’t have access to the original source files, I just have copies of them on disc.
Thanks
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Last edited by AndyLGR; 1st Aug 2011 at 09:36.
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For quick and dirty (also the easiest way), you could try DVDRB, and use the option to convert 4:3 to 16:9. That means re-encoding, but I don't think you can successfully patch that second DVD. If I'm wrong, no doubt someone will speedily correct me.
I have a very early production DVD (Home Alone) that was poorly authored; it displays like yours. DVDRB can fix that one, maybe yours too. Good luck.Pull! Bang! Darn! -
You can re-author the 2nd disk by removing 72 lines top and 72 lines bottom and re-encode the video at 16:9 - Mpeg2 source so you may well also have to de-interlace the video before cropping.
There will be some loss of quality in the re-encoding. -
fritzi93's right. You have to reencode the entire thing. Or just use the zoom on your remote control. Because it's widescreen 4:3 cropping out the black bars and resizing so you can encode it as 16:9 (or letting DVD-RB do it for you) won't help a whole lot because the resolution just isn't there to begin with.
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