16:9 and 4:3 on same DVD

[choirislife923]

is it possible to have video content that is in 16:9 and 4:3 on the same dvd? I am wondering because I recently bought a 16:9 lens at a community yard sale for $200 (no scrathes...compare that with $700 for the century optics one!), so i will begin my 16:9 capturing spree. since the lens distorts everything to fit 4:3, I am going to use ReStream to make it 16:9, but then I have this other problem...all the previous footage is in 4:3, so I am wondering..is possible to throw in both on the same DVD? I think it is possible...look at hollywood...their DVDs have a 16:9 movie and then 4:3 bonus features.

[Tom Lewandowski]

Yes. I've done it with captured video from my camera. Some commercial DVD's provide both a widescreen and 4:3 format on the same disc as well. The "Armed And Dangerous" DVD is one of them...

[bunyip]

Yes, the trick is the different attribute movies must be placed on different physical 'tracks' on the DVD.
You will need to use an author program that supports tracks.

[steptoe]

I suppose most decent authoring programs will support tracks, I know TMPGenc DVD Author does

I use tracks for each thing I add onto DVD, weather its 2 movies or episodes, they all go on their own 'track'

Maybe I'm wrong doing this, anybody know, but it works and I have had no problems as such keeping things apart like this

[Isengard]

You must place them into different VTS.

[racer-x]

Isengard is correct. The 16:9 must be on one VTS and 4:3 must be on another VTS.

DVD-Lab supports multiple VTS. I have use it to put both 16:9 and 4:3 on the same disk and it worked great. I'm sure there are more s/w that support multiple VTS, but I only use DVD-Lab.

[Baldrick]

vts=tracks in tmpgenc dvd author.