DVD authored with IFOEdit sound and aspect ratio issues

[artronic]

Hi all,

I tried to convert one of my old Divx movies to DVD. I only partially succeeded.
1) Virtualdub-ed the avi to extract the audio to a wav file
2) Tmpgenc-ed the avi to basic mpeg2 streams and obtained an m2v ans another wav.
3) Authored with IFOWEdit and got the vob's ands ifo's.
4) Burned it (to a rw disc).

Two problems:
- sound plays on the computer but not the stand alone player; if I tinker with the player's audio output settings I get audio for a spit second then silence. Could that be because I got a wav instead of an mp2?
- in spite of the fact that the divx was widescreen and I can see that the m2v is also wide on the computer, the standalone crops the sides and fits the image vertically. Is there a way to tell IFOEdit to use widescreen by default?

Thank you.

[artronic]

Thank you IFOEdit!

All I had to do to fix the aspect ratio was to open the IFO's and set the aspect ratio to 16:9 and check the Auto Letterbox checkbox.

As far as the sound issue, I re-encoded the files selecting MPEG layer II for audio instead of pcm. It did the trick.

The resulting DVD plays (reasonably) well on the stand alone. I guess it's great for a DivX restored back to DVD.

I still have two questions:

1) would anyone be interested in a guide?

2) was I being ignored because of the topic, the wrong forum (newbie question) or some other reason?
Tell me, so that I can learn from my mistakes.