Please help! Wide screen problem!

[moviebuff2]

I have backed up successfully many wide screen DVDs. This is the first time I encountered the following problem.

I have a DVD that I can watch with a wide screen. However, when I tried to back it up with Smart Ripper, the wide screen was replaced with a full screen with strangely elongated faces! Looking at the Smart Ripper window, it said "no" to wide screen.

Would someone please explain to me how that happened? And, what I could do go get the wide screen?

Many thanks.

[guns1inger]

It is widescreen (the long faces are from the anamorphic enhancement), however for some reason your player is not seeing it as such, and therefore not converting it to letterbox (which I assume you have set it to do, or it defaults to). If you watched this on a widescreen TV, or a 16:9 switchable 4:3 TV, you would not have a problem.

I don't use Smart Ripper, however I have not seen this problem with DVD Decrypter. In fact, using DVD Decrypter and either DVD Shrink or DVD Rebuilder seem to fix improperly marked 16:9 disks but putting the 16:9 codes properly into the stream - when the stream is re-written.

Check your player setting to see what it does with widescreen disks, and make sure this setting hasn't changed. If you have a standard 4:3 TV, the player should letterbox a widescreen movie. If you have 16:9 switchable 4:3, or a widescreen TV, then the player should output 16:9 (which would give you the long faces).

[moviebuff2]

Sorry, I did not make myself understood.

I do not have problem watching this DVD, with wide screen, in either my stand alone DVD player or my DVD-ROM.

The strange thing is when I used Smart Ripper, it did not recognize the letter box element of the DVD. After I open Smart Ripper and after it reads the all chapters in the DVD, a window appears where I will choose a folder to store my files. In this window, there is a little section called "video info" which contains information about the screen (letter box or not). The info I get is "no".

My question is how come I can watch the movie in wide screen but cannot rip it with wide screen? I have ripped many wide screen DVDs with no problems. This is the first DVD that gives me this trouble.

I am not trying to make a DVD. I only want to make an MPEG file to store it on a blank DVD.

[thecoalman]

I can't tell you why it's not ripping correctly but I can tell you why it's not displaying correctly. The aspect ratio (if any) for a mpeg is stored in the header. Here's a screenshot. Open up your editor and right click the mpg>properties and see if the 16:9 attribute is present.



The following is a guess; I'm pretty sure this information is stored in the .ifo file on a DVD and not in the video. When your ripping the video it's not adding this information.

You can drop the video in your editor and create a new file as long as the editor supports 16:9. If you use the same video settings that your mpg has now it should not renecode the video and just add the correct information. There's probably a tool for this but I'm not aware of any.

[sacajaweeda]

Restream

[dphirschler]

Is there a way to do this in IFO edit?


Darryl

[thecoalman]

Is there a way to do this in IFO edit?


Darryl

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