DVD aspect ratio problem

billcoffin wrote on 4/24/2016, 6:10 PM

I'm using DVD Arch. 5.0 to produce a DVD. The result is too wide, even if I set the TV to be 4:3. Oddly, this worked fine on an older blu-ray player, and looks fine on a yet older true DVD player or on my computer. It just seems to be this Panasonic BD player that gets DVDs wrong. (It also gets some, but not all, commercial DVDs wrong too.)

I suppose I should just write off the player, but the fact that SOME DVDs look OK suggests that there might be some magic in the authoring.

The original stuff is 720x480 29fps AVI clips. I've tried rendering the mpgs as widescreen and that doesn't help.

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videoITguy wrote on 4/24/2016, 7:03 PM

There are many things that govern display of aspect ratio.

For example flags within video headers can suggest aspect ratio to the player of the video - usually this is a requirement in software players.

In your DVD and Blu-ray set-top players you usually have firmware that can be setup to give one or the other behaviors of aspect playback - check the internal options menu of the given set-top player.

Finally the method of image transport ( HDMI, component, or ? ) can also govern what video stream information can be passed to a smart connecting LCD panel display - some times can be dictated by the screens internal menu options.

musicvid10 wrote on 4/25/2016, 9:10 AM

Did you set your DVD Architect project properties to match your media?
Architect does not do this automatically!