Weird Results w/ Galactica's Method

[FutureMan]

I have 3 SVCD image files (bin/cue) for a movie and don't really want to burn 3 cds, so I did some research and found Galactica's tutorials (which are wonderful might I add). I followed the tutorial for converting svcd to dvd-r to the letter (except I skipped the audio re-encoding step) and everything worked...sort of. When I played the disc on my set top dvd player the video is all there it's just all over to one side, if that makes sense. It's not wide enough to fill the screen anyway and it's stuck against the left side of the screen with about 1/4 of the screen to the right of it black. I've posted an image below of how the video sits on the screen. Like I said, I followed the instructions to the letter except for the audio part, which next time around I will do because the audio sounds a little jittery and I'm sure that's the reason. Anyway...anybody got any idea why it ended up like that? With the video not all the way across the screen? Anyone got any better ways to do it than the way I did it?

Thanks,
FutureMan


see how it's over to the left?

Summary: iMac G4 with pioneer superdrive
vcdtools to rip mpegs from bin
demux mpegs (FFmpegx)
mux mpegs as dvd (ffmpegx)
IFOGEN (drag and drop into terminal)
TOCGEN (drag and drop into terminal)
Burned as DVD in toast 5.1.2

[galactica]

actually... its quite typical and its should only noticed when you play it on your mac.

i may have forgotten to add this fact in my tutorial.... but this is why I did say it works on MOST players (not all!)

which tutorial did you use because i updated them totally so if you using the older method (ifo edit toc edit method) you may want to use the newer one.

otherwise, it could be like that because you didnt choose the correct aspect ratio settings in sizzle.

the picture you posed (thanks by the way) looks as if its full screen SVCD you made into wide screen

is that the case???

Galactica

[FutureMan]

Galactica,

Thanks for responding. I did use the ifo/toc method. Interestingly, I have found a fix, a less than ideal fix, but a fix none-the-less. Over the holidays I had a chance to test the disc on some other players and I think it's just my dvd player because it worked like a champ on a sony dvd player and on a panasonic player I was able to try it on. For home use I have found it plays relatively well on my PS2 even though the video seems to jump a little every 10 seconds or so, it is at least the right size. The audio problem was fixed with ffmpegx re-encoding it at 48khz. So all in all I'm satisfied I suppose. Maybe I'll try to re-do it with your new method though because I sure would like to be able to play it on my set-top instead of my PS2. Anyway thanks for the help and take care!

FutureMan

PS-my dvd player is a pioneer dv-333 and usually plays anything you put in it perfectly.

[galactica]

i should have the new method up shortly.
im typing it up in a bit

unfortunately you are finding out that that method only works on some dvd players but not all!

the new tutorial will be up soon

[galactica]

VCD and SVCD to DVD Guide

She's up now....

[FutureMan]

You're the best.

Think it'll make any difference if I just take the vobs I've got back to mpeg and take it from there? I already threw away the bin/cue files since they were taking up space on the hard drive and I had them as vobs safely on a dvd. Oh well. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks again!

FutureMan

[galactica]

you can do that.. just verify the resulting .m2v files play back with no problems in VLC (will have no sound)