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  1. 9th Dec 2004 18:37 #1
    Nosey249
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    My wife died in October and the funeral and grave side service was recorded, I have converted the dv to dvd with menus, when I play it back on the computer it looks great, and plays back in wide screen, but when it is played on a set top player it plays in full screen.

    is there anyway to force the player to play in widescreen or am I doing something wrong when I am authoring the dvd?
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    Originally Posted by Nosey249
    My wife died in October and the funeral and grave side service was recorded, I have converted the dv to dvd with menus, when I play it back on the computer it looks great, and plays back in wide screen, but when it is played on a set top player it plays in full screen.

    is there anyway to force the player to play in widescreen or am I doing something wrong when I am authoring the dvd?
    By "full screen on the TV" do you mean the sides are being chopped off or are you seeing the picture horizontally squashed?
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    The DVD Player set up menu should have a section on how a disc is displayed. The choices are usually

    Pan & Scan (or P&S, Fullscreen)
    Matted Letterbox ( or Letterbox)
    Widescreen (or 16:9)

    As you have a widescreen TV, it should be set to widescreen. If the DVD is marked as widescreen, it will be displayed as such.

    Computers can be more forgiving of poorly authored discs. I have studio discs that exhibit this same behaviour becuase they have not be properly authored as 16:9 (thanks, Paramount)
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  5. 11th Dec 2004 21:16 #5
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    I am assuming it is wide screen, the sides are chopped off on the regular tv, I used my camera today and checked to see if it was set to a "wide screen" effect and the 16:9 is turned off.

    I haven't tried yet to force the player to play the dvd as a wide screen, but, I am giving these dvd's to family and don't want to have to explain to everyone how to make it work to look right..

    any suggestions
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    Well if you really wanted to force it you could change the IFO files to 16:9 amd Auto Letter box. You would need to use IFOEDIT for this.


    Sorry to hear about your wife.
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