DVDLab Pro 2 Aspect Ratio Woes

[Super Leviathan]

So, I'm putting together a little home movies project that involves creating a DVD for strictly 4:3 material in DVDLab Pro 2. However, I would like to create 16:9 menus for the DVD.

So, this forum thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=105613) suggests that I can change the AR of the menus, without affecting the movies to 16:9 by going into VTS properties. However, when I compile the discs and test them in AVS and Media Player Classic, everything is in 16:9, not just the menus.

What am I doing wrong and how can I fix this.

[Super Leviathan]

Can anyone help me answer this?

[tinker]

Did you go to a Project Properties and setup a menu format?

[Super Leviathan]

Yes. I did.

All of the video content is uniformly 4:3, and shows up as such in Assets. It's just the menus are widescreen, but MPC and AVS display everything in widescreen.

[tinker]

There is a tool GSpot (free), just check "Tools" on this site. Download it and import VOB where the movie is. It will tell you what format it is in.

[Super Leviathan]

Opened the files with G-Spot. VTS_01_0.VOB (menu content) is 16:9, but all the other VOB files after that are 4:3 (the video content). Everything is MPEG-2, no issue there.

So, why does Media Player Classic's playback not reflect changes in DAR.

[Super Leviathan]

Are you still there, tinker?

[aedipuss]

you can't mix 16/9 and 4:3 content in a single vts. the movie would have to be put into it's own vts.

[Super Leviathan]

I was under the impression that would couldn't mix 4:3 and 16:9 MOVIES in the same VTS. The movie content is all 4:3.

[tinker]

It looks like a compilation is OK. It may be just a player that interpret it wrong. Try to born test end play it on stand alone DVD player.

[aedipuss]

I was under the impression that would couldn't mix 4:3 and 16:9 MOVIES in the same VTS. The movie content is all 4:3.

no the first thing that plays in a dvd vts sets the format. if it's a 16/9 menu the entire vts must be 16/9.

[tinker]

no the first thing that plays in a dvd vts sets the format. if it's a 16/9 menu the entire vts must be 16/9.

I tend to disagree with this statement. I have seen many pro DVD with Menu in 4:3 and Title with 16:9 and it play fine.

[aedipuss]

if you know what you're doing you can mix them with multiple vts's, 16'9 encoded as 4:3 or a kludge.