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Originally Posted by mcalistor
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Anyways, lately, encountered a couple problems, not sure if they're bugs though:
1. The last three rebuilds, all of them at BD9, play in a narrow format on my Sammy BD-P2500. The first 10-12 backups all played flawlessly (as long as I remember to enable "Stricter AVCHD"), but the last three are messed up. I get big sidebars on my 16:9 DLP. The movies play fine on my PC using Classic Media Player at the proper wide aspect ratio of 2.35:1. I checked my HT setup by testing some previous backups, no problem, so I know my config is good. The only way I can fix it is to switch my BD player to output 720p and "format" the TV to "wide expand", but then the movie is obviously cropped and PQ is down. Like I said, this probably isn't a bug, but maybe someone knows what the dealio is.
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@mcalistor:
Use BDedit to take a look at the PLAYLIST and CLIPINF values in the movie that was created after BD-RE had finished running.
I would not be surprised that your PLAYLIST tab did not have a
720p or
1080p in the STN view.
And, would also be not surprised if the CLIPINF tab shows that the AR is 4:3.
If that is the case, using a hex editor to change the AR value in the 00001.clpi file, and changing the AR in the 00000.mpls using BDedit would get you the 16:9 display back.
@jdobbs:
There are many movies that are not in 16:9 AR (usually 2.35:1 or 2.4:1) on discs. From what I have read, it is due to "artistic license" by the directors or whatever.
I would guess that is the problem with mcalistor's source as I have come over several such discs myself.
The only way I could overcome the issue -- before BD-RE "came on the market"
was to re-encode the video and adding borders to force a "true" 1920x1080 and then re-mux, replacing original video with the letterboxed copy that I made.
Since BD-RE does report the correct display dimensions after reading in the source
Code:
[20:54:52] PHASE ONE, Encoding
- [20:58:56] Collecting video information [00001]
- Video: 1920x816, 23.976fps
- Bitrate: 7,608 Kbs
- [20:59:01] Reencoding: VID_00001, Pass 1 of 2
would it be possible to include logic in BD-RE to check the dimensions and then during x264 run, add borders to force display XY to be fully 1920x1080?
I hope what I have written makes sense and if this is a OT feature request, please make appropriate "hmmm" noises and disregard.
James