How can I edit *.bdmv files to correct aspect ratio?

[smnckl]

Hi. I am new to this forum and have a problem that I hope the more experienced and wiser videophiles here can assist me with.

I have captured some movies (not premium channel) and documentaries from my cable set-top box and have converted the MPEG2 streams to x264. What I have done is convert the TS streams to M2TS and then using megui (AND a lot of CPU time) gotten me x264 and AC3 streams which I then muxed to Blu-ray using tsMuxeR.
I saved the original MPEG2 streams (letterboxed by the set-top box ) in 1920x1080 (16:9 DAR) and during the conversion in megui I clipped off the bars and resized to 1280 x whatever was recommended by the megui AR calculator in order to maintain the 16:9 AR.
After burning the BDMV folders (using Imgburn, UDF 2.5) to a DVD DL disc I got "splitscreen" image on my LCD TV (left half of TV full color, right half is offset of left but in light blue/gray). Playback on my PC using both VLC and Nero Showtime were fine.
After searching the web I dl'd and used BDedit to check the structure and saw that in the .bdmv the vertical resolution was not shown. In the .clpi, the AR was shown as 4:3.

I tried searching for the term "4:3" in the index.bdmv files but it came up with no hits. I would really appreciate some assistance or pointers as to where to look to resolve this.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the latest versions of both Avisynth and megui + run the conversions a couple of times (24 to 30 hours each) with the same result.

Thanks in advance for any/all help.

James




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[Baldrick]

What do you play the blu-ray dvd with?

And don't crop it. Keep it in 1920x1080 or resize to 1280x720, as they are standard blu-ray resolutions. I don't know how to keep the 16:9 aspect ratio though. Maybe try convert to blu-ray using Ripbot264(it also uses x264 so you will get similar quality as megui).

[smnckl]

Hi Baldrick,

What do you play the blu-ray dvd with?

I do the playback on my SAP, a Sony BDP-S350.

And don't crop it. Keep it in 1920x1080 or resize to 1280x720, as they are standard blu-ray resolutions. I don't know how to keep the 16:9 aspect ratio though. Maybe try convert to blu-ray using Ripbot264(it also uses x264 so you will get similar quality as megui).

What I did was to clip (remove) the black bars that were inserted by the DVR during the transfer to my capture app. My situation is that in the CLPI file, the AR is reported as 4:3 but displays correctly as 16:9 on my PC monitor, not on my widescreen TV. I assume (naively?) that the DAR in the CLPI file is causing the issue at the BD player.

I'll have to try find a way to change what is in the CLPI file to see whether that is *really* the cause of my issue. After 6 coasters and a week wasted I am frustrated.

Takker, brorsan. Taler litt norsk her.