Changing aspect ratio of an encoded DVD

[quiller]

I (stupidly) erased the source video from my primary system after encoding my movie. Only after that did I check the video before burning it (loaded the VIDEO_TS folder into WinDVD) only to find the video was all squashed horizontally. Now, I have the source video on another machine, but I won't have access to that system for about a month. Is there an easy/fast way to take the encoded VIDEO_TS folder and change the aspect ratio back to what it should be? Am I going to lose quality (if so, how much-- will it be noticable?) and will I have to rip it to DivX/XviD and then re-convert it?

[Syndrome]

as far as i know, you will have to re-encode it from the orginal source. sorry bout your luck m8.

Syndrome

[qdnguyen94]

Would you please give more information about your final output?

If forcing the final DVD to be 16:9 widescreen letterbox (or the other way) would display the pixel correctly, you could use the InfoEdit freeware to force the DVD to be 16:9 widescreen letterbox.

Goodluck.

[qdnguyen94]

Sorry about the typo.

The program name is IfoEdit.

[quiller]

I ended up extracting the VOB files into AVI (five parts) with VirtualDub MPEG2, then converting those into m2v (with TMPGEnc Plus) and PCM wav (with VirtualDub). Then I joined everything together with TMPGEnc DVD Author and, after spending some time re-adjusting the audiosync, everything works great.

[XAWE]

qdnguyen94 is right, it's easier to use IFOEdit to change AR. I've done that before and it worked fine.