Lester Burnham
1st September 2006, 13:49
I've been puzzled a little bit with something I've tried to do in terms of altering the recorded aspect ratio in (well really with the contents of) a DVD (RW) I recorded on my standalone recorder.
My recorder only records with aspect flagged as 4:3 (although does record all anamorphic recordings with all the picture), I can change my viewing settings on the TV for anamorphic widescreen stuff that I've recorded, so that it displays correctly.
On playback, my recorder normally honours the aspect ratio on DVDs - certainly does with commercial DVDs, and also with DVDs I've authored from captured material (ie stuff I've spooled off my PVR using a Hauppauge PVR-USB2, then edited to remove adverts, and then authored to a DVDR).
Anyway, I'd recorded a TV program on my DVD recorder, that's broadcast in anamorphic widescreen, to a RW disk. I then ripped the contents (well I say ripped - it's domestic DVD recorder, so there's no encryption or protection), then used DVDpatcher on all the VOBs to simply switch the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9. I did that for all packets, not just the header, and on all VOBs.
When I playback on my PC, using VLC, everything is correctly displayed as anamorphic widescreen. So I use imgburn to burn this back to the RW disk. Play that on my PC using VLC again, and it's correctly displayed as anamorphic widescreen.
When I take the disk and play it on my standalone, it plays it as 4:3 and doesn't switch to widescreen as it normally would.
What am I missing - how else is my standalone inferring the aspect ratio - because as I said, it's always been spot on previously, both on my own authored DVDs, and commercial copies.
Thanks for any tips.
My recorder only records with aspect flagged as 4:3 (although does record all anamorphic recordings with all the picture), I can change my viewing settings on the TV for anamorphic widescreen stuff that I've recorded, so that it displays correctly.
On playback, my recorder normally honours the aspect ratio on DVDs - certainly does with commercial DVDs, and also with DVDs I've authored from captured material (ie stuff I've spooled off my PVR using a Hauppauge PVR-USB2, then edited to remove adverts, and then authored to a DVDR).
Anyway, I'd recorded a TV program on my DVD recorder, that's broadcast in anamorphic widescreen, to a RW disk. I then ripped the contents (well I say ripped - it's domestic DVD recorder, so there's no encryption or protection), then used DVDpatcher on all the VOBs to simply switch the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9. I did that for all packets, not just the header, and on all VOBs.
When I playback on my PC, using VLC, everything is correctly displayed as anamorphic widescreen. So I use imgburn to burn this back to the RW disk. Play that on my PC using VLC again, and it's correctly displayed as anamorphic widescreen.
When I take the disk and play it on my standalone, it plays it as 4:3 and doesn't switch to widescreen as it normally would.
What am I missing - how else is my standalone inferring the aspect ratio - because as I said, it's always been spot on previously, both on my own authored DVDs, and commercial copies.
Thanks for any tips.