Widescreen Encoding Blues

[scottoinkingsburg]

Hello, I have been working on making a new DVD for my website and I have been really wanting to make the movie in widescreen (16:9) format. Anyways I got the raw DV video and used Virtualdub to deinterlace the raw avi video (taken from a Samsung HI8 camcorder) and make it a 640x480 resolution. I also split the audio and video with Virtualdub. Then I created a template in AIST to crop the movie to a 640x360 resolution (16:9) and then created a new avi. So far so good. Once this step is complete I use TMPEG Encoder to make the mpeg2 video. I used many settings to get the 16:9 ratio, and all but one worked at making the movie display at 16:9 both on my DVD Player software (ulead) and my DVD player (Apex AD-3201). But when I go to my neighbors house (the guy with the cool 16:9 65" TV) and put the DVD in his DVD player (Apex AD-1110) it reads the disc as a DVD-ROM and will not play! This is driving me crazy. Why will 9 discs all encoded in different was will play 16:9 widescreen fine on one player but not the other?

[Tommyknocker]

Have you tried different brands?

[Arky]

Scott, why did you make your video 640x360?

This is not a DVD compliant frame resolution - you should be aiming for 720x576 (PAL) or 720x480 (NTSC) (there are smaller resolutions allowable in the DVD spec but if you want to playback your disks on a 65" TV, then these smaller resolutions will be a pitiful waste of time). The Apex may well be recognising that your files violate DVD spec. However, if you really did author with these frame sizes (assuming TMPGEnc did not scale them back up), then I am mystified as to why your authoring software accepted them. What software did you author with? Ulead DVD Movie Factory? Ulead DVD Workshop? Or something else? (I see you mention a Ulead software DVD player, so I am guessing that you authored using a Ulead program, too).


Arky ;o)

[scottoinkingsburg]

Well there was one time where I did set the resolution at 720x480 and had the aspect at 16:9, my player once again played it with no problem and fit the screen to size, but the other DVD player would not even play the disc. That is what is really weird.