Jump2pgc and menu AR behaviour on 4:3 TV

[mapi]

Hy guys,

this is my first post and first of all I want to thanks everybody for the lot of useful information and guides I find in this forum.

Working on Shrek R2 I try to skip the starting language selection menu with jump2pcg to start directly with the main menu (I follow 2COOL guide for jump2pgc).

Testing the results with winDVD everything is ok but on my 4:3 TV the menu’s highlight are completely out of place: the menu background has a 16:9 AR (the menu of the original DVD fit the whole screen) while the subpic looks as they were in a 4:3 AR.
I checked the stream characteristics with pgcedit and I find a situation similar to the one reported by Taelon in this treat (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=100556): the menu looks 16:9 in a software player, the stream attributes report it as 16:9 automatic pan&scan but the menu preview say that it is 4:3.

I suppose that jumping to the main menu, something happens to it so that automatic pan&scan does not work anymore.
To verify this hypothesis I only replaced the main movie with a short part of it (I reauthored and cut the movie with DVDShrink and replaced it to the main movie with pgcedit) so to maintain menu and to make as few changes as possible to the original structure. Then I tested it either maintaining the language selection menu or jumping it. The results confirm my idea: leaving the language selection menu everything is ok on my TV (pan& scan background and subpics in the right place) while when I jump it to start directly with the main menu all the subpics maintain a 4:3 AR while the background is displayed in 16:9 AR.
Do anybody experienced something like this? How can I fix it? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

mapi

[r0lZ]

Welcome, mapi. Sorry for replying so late.

What you have experienced is very strange. I cannot understand why there should be an AR change with the Jump2PGC method.
Have you tried the "Jump 2 PGC upon DVD Insert" function in PgcEdit? Though similar to 2COOL's method, this function does not exactly the same thing. See the guide here (http://www.videohelp.com/~r0lZ/pgcedit/third_party/blutach/How_to_use_PgcEdit_new_macro.htm).
I'm curious to know if the same problem occur with my method.

[mapi]

Hy r0IZ,
thanks for your reply.
Yes after my post I did some try, at the end I used the Jump 2 PGC function in PGCEdit and it worked.
After that, I was curious and I check all the steps I did at the beginning to find an explanation and...it was my fault. The movie has two angles and reauthoring it with DVDshrink the final cells number was lower than the original one. Pcgedit warned me that it would not possible to maintain some of the original features (I do not remember the complete warning). The result was that the menu aspect ratio was changed automatically on 16/9 automatic letterbox instead of 16/9 automatic pan&scan.
Thanks again

mapi