authoring DVDs guide

[aldaco12]

Hi. Among the guides, on 'authoring DVD with subtitles' I found this sentence:

Posted: May 02, 2004 21:05

DO NOT use Rejig to multiplex PAL DVD and DO NOT use IfoEdit to multiplex NTSC DVD !

Use Rejig ONLY for NTSC DVD and IfoEdit ONLY for PAL DVD, like in the guide.

Yes IfoEdit has a bug with NTSC DVD. And Rejig has the same bug with PAL DVD

Is this sentence still valid for both IFOEDit and ReJig or some more recent versions (of IFOEdit or of Rejig) are now clear of these bugs?

Thanks a lot.

[manono]

Hi-

Is this sentence still valid for both IFOEDit and ReJig...

I know it's no longer true for IFOEdit. I have never used ReJig, and don't know about that one.

Muxman is better than both, for simple authoring.

[aldaco12]

Alas, Muxman rejects my M2V files.
Maybe because they are encoded with square pixels (since my M2V are born from AVI files, so I chose to encode the DVD movie using square pixels')?

[Baldrick]

You must resize to dvd compliant video frame sizes.

What video frame size/resolution are the m2v files in?

[aldaco12]

I start from a, say, 640x272 AVI movie, I use VirtualDub's Resize filter to resize + to add it borders to turn it into a 720x576 movie (I use PAL), then I frameserve it to my encoder.
The only excetption is that I tell the encoder to create a 'square pixels' (TMPGenc's 'VGA' option) M2V and, usually, original DVDs are either 4:3 or 16:9.

[Abond]

Video DVD specs do not support square pixels (it is 1:1 AR), only 4:3 and 16:9.
You can correct the ratio in the headers with Restream or DVDPatcher.

[manono]

...and, usually, original DVDs are either 4:3 or 16:9.

Try ...and, always, original DVDs are either 4:3 or 16:9.

And so should yours be.

You can correct the ratio in the headers with Restream or DVDPatcher.

I don't know what he did in VDub, but if the 1:1 result looks "normal", then patching to 4:3 or 16:9 isn't going to help. He'll have to reencode. Better would be to frameserve using AviSynth, using a script generated by FitCD. Here's the FulciLives FitCD guide:

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic296341.html#1487285