Tearing my hair out over this problem!.....

Finatic13 wrote on 9/25/2007, 1:11 AM

Ive created a dvd with menus buttons etc all is well except one small thing.

Ive used text only buttons and used the text mask highlight for selected buttons. i run the preview DVD and everything is fine, all the buttons highlight correctly and go to the right chapter points.

I make the DVD then burn to a disc and ONE of the text buttons is a problem, the text mask highlight doesnt line up over the actual text (it works) but the highlight text if like 3 font sizes smaller. However, if i open the DVD's video_ts folder on my hard drive with VLC player and play it on my PC it all highlights fine!!

Im totally baffled and have burned a couple of discs to see if there was a problem with the burn, ive even just re made the DVD for 3 hours and still the problem is there!!

anyone any idea whats going on ?

Comments

dand9959 wrote on 9/27/2007, 9:05 AM

What font is the text in? Have you tried it with a basic Arial?

MPM wrote on 10/15/2007, 1:15 PM

Aspect ratios...
Or at least that's the only thing I've seen cause this sort of behavior.

It can be caused by the player, and it's display mode. It can also be caused by importing the wrong sized background image or highlight mask. Some software players -- I'm unsure about VLC -- stretch the frame taller to compensate for non-square pixels on a square pixel display. Stand-a-lone DVD players stretch the picture to fit the TV. When the sub-picture overlay gets stretched differently than the background, they don't line up any longer. One example is using a 4:3 snapshot of a 16:9 video frame to create the highlight mask... It can look great stretched in DVDA preview, but it'll be off on DVD.