Problem with encoding an Aspect Ratio of 16:9

[roach76]

Hi, I have just done my first DVD and have run into one problem. When I play the DVD in my standalone player (Panasonic DVD-RV32) the movie looks a little weird.

In 1 part of the image throughout the whole movie there is about a 1 inch thick vertical distortion going from top to bottom on the TV in the middle of the right half of the screen (21in TV), the actual distortion is like the movie is in a lower resolution and looks slightly pixellated. When I encoded the movie with TMPGEnc Plus 2.58 I used the 'DVD(PAL)' Template.

I only unlocked the 'Aspect Ratio' under the 'Video' Tab and changed it to 16:9 like Doom9's guide suggested to do (Yes the movie is in 16:9, got it from IfoEdit)

I demuxed the first VOB from the movie (the original ones) and authored the m2v and AC3 files on their own and I had absolutely no problems running on my player. So if I don't encode it, it works perfectly. But the movie is too large to leave it.

Also the movie that has the distortion plays perfectly on the computer.

I can't see why I can't use 16:9 because It is part of the DVD Standard. So is it my player or TMPGEnc?

..........HELP!!!!! Thanks

[roach76]

I just tried it with ReMPEG2 v1.5.2 and had exactly the same problem. It points to the DVD Player but I still think it is something else, cause why does the original DVD work? It's Aspect Ratio is 16:9 as well as all the other 80 DVD Titles that I own.

What is so different between them except the fact the video file has been re-encoded and it's on a DVD-R?

If I switch the Aspect Ratio to 4:3 in TMPGEnc the problem also goes away? Very puzzling.

[DIggedy]

I encode as 4:3 in TMPG (leaving the 16:9 stretching in place) then use Restream to change the aspect ratio to 16:9 on the encoded file. I don't know if this will help you or not...

[roach76]

Thanks for your help, I tried it, I set the source aspect ratio as 4:3 and the encoded aspect ratio as 4:3 which when played back came out stretched. I used ReStream and it went back to normal which is good but again on the player it had exactly the same problem. I'd like to know what exactly I have to do to make it like all my normal anamorphic DVDs. What the hell is so different!!!......Calm down now.

Frustrating......