Making an Anamorphic DVD, S/W? Process?

[TBoneit]

Proper forum?

OK, as the question says. I can not seem to find a Zoom setting that will let widescreen movies fill the screen without losing part ot the top and bottom.

So I think maybe the best way is either make a widescreen Divx which should work per my tests. Still testing that though. I treid FairuseWizard last night tonigh I'll try playing it. But on a 3Ghz P4HT it was taking hours. Plus despite not checking the Shutdown Computer when done it shut the computer down.

I think I could re-encode the DVD faster.

So we come to the question of what software that someone like me that has already shot their Toy budget this year could afford will author it or is it simply a matter of the way it is encoded and the flags set during the authoring and I could use TMPGEnc DVD Author to author. Maybe use something like IFOEdit to patch to display right on a HDTV.

Thanks

[Baldrick]

IfoAR2WS

but i'm not sure if I understand what you want....

[TBoneit]

Well I'm having problems with Widescreen DVDs not totally filling the screen on the HDTV. The TV has a fill function but on DVDs it just stretches them to fill side to side not top to bottom. DVD player, 1 has no zoom and the other zoome 2X and overfills the screen.

I'm just guessing that if they were anamorphic rather than being Letterboxed they'd fill the screen?

Thanks

[jagabo]

Most widescreen movies are wider than 16:9 so there will still be some black bars at the top and bottom of the frame.

[TBoneit]

Unfortunatley I'm getting bars all around. Pressing fill on the TV remote fills from side to side or Zoom which I only seem to have on one player zooms to much.

I have some older divx(xvid) that were widescreen from before that fill the screen from top to bottom and with fill on the TV remote the screen is perfectly filled. I'd like to acheive the same result for DVDs.

Any help appreciated.

Edit: I should add that Widescreen broadcasts such a monstersHD or UniversalHD captured from a 480i downrez output to a Pioneer 531h look pretty good, and also can be made to fill the screen with the fill button without looking bad. So I suppose I'm just asking how to reauthor existing WS DVDs so they do that and of course when taking AVI captures how to do that to DVD (ADVC 100 source)
I'm happy with the results of HD to DVD via the Pioneer so maybe my eyes aren't HiFi, And yes I can see the difference but I can easily live with the results.
Cheers

[guns1inger]

Is this all or some widescreen DVDs ?

If it is all, then I would be looking at the way your player and TV are configured. If your player is set to output letterbox for widescreen, then the TV will see this as a 4:3 output, and you will get borders all around.

If it is jsut certain discs, are they anamorphic or letterbox encoded ?

If they are letterbox encoded, the simplest fix I have seen is DVD Rebuilder Pro. It has an option to crop, resize and encode letterbox material to 16:9

[TBoneit]

The Players are set to 16:9 and the Phillips and the Pioneer 531h are feeding in through Component. The VIP622 HD DVR is in the HDMI port. I'm also feeding S-Video via a AV center/switcher that I'm feeding 3 other video sources and the DVR, Phillps and Pioneer for audio.

The TV gives a beautiful picture to my eyes Via HDMI form Dishnetwork. The DVDs look good via component too. I'd just like to get letterboxed DVDs to fill the screen. They don't as is.

The DVDs from the pioneer using the TVs fill function fill from side to side and so do WS DVDs , difference is the Pioneer made DVDs also fill it from top to bottom. Thus if I record on the Pioneer form a WS HD Channel I can end up filling the screen by using the fill function and to me it looks OK, Others might be bothered by the slight stretching in width.

So to sun up I want to be able to take a Widescreen DVD and Re-encode/re-author it to fill the screen. I just pulled a couple of DVDs off of the shelp and the label says Widscreen presented ina letterboxed format. I suspect that is my problem. They are filling the screen top to bottom with the black bars as part of the video?

Just checked the Pioneer and I believe I have it set right. Component out, Progressive and TV Screen size of 16:9

Cheers

[guns1inger]

The Pioneer will be recording widescreen 16:9, which does fill the screen of a 16:9 TV. Most movies, however are wider than 1.78:1 (16:9), and so will not fill the screen top to bottom unless you zoom in and crop off then ends. Most widescreen DVDs will not fill your screen top to bottom.

Material that is widescreen letterbox is actually 4:3, with matted black bars top and bottom. If played back as 4:3 on your player, you will get borders all around.

[thecoalman]

I just pulled a couple of DVDs off of the shelp and the label says Widscreen presented ina letterboxed format. I suspect that is my problem. They are filling the screen top to bottom with the black bars as part of the video?

Put the DVD in your computer drive and play it in WMP. Pause it anywhere, hit ctrl-I to save a screen shot and you'll be able to see if or what is part of the video. Sounds to me like you have a 16:9 on a 4:3 matte. Works fine for 4:3 TV but on a widescreen it will give you black bars all the way around the video. The top and bottom would be part of the video...

If that's the case yoiu'll just make a huge mess of it trying to get it to true widescreen video.... post the creenshot here.

[TBoneit]

I'll have to try that later when I get back. I'm pretty sure they are letterboxed with black bars encoded in. Now to figure out posting a screenshot too.

Seems like anything will require a re-encode too.