How to make a pan and scan enabled dvd?

Gorr · 23rd April 2002, 11:33

How do I make a dvd which can support pan and scan play mode in scenarist?

Thanks

cupid59 · 25th April 2002, 19:00

For some reason related to DVD spec, you need to encode your video with embedded pan e scan information. So, you can enable both pan&scan and letterbox options. If your encoder do not permit to put into your file information about pan&scan you must to put with some kind of utility your data in your file.

Cupid

Gorr · 26th April 2002, 11:26

Anyone know about such a utility?

Nevers · 26th April 2002, 19:48

When I put "Lord of the Rings" on DVD I used Pixeltools MPEGRepair to put in Pan & Scan information. It took about 75 minutes of processing time to do it on my AXP 1800+ 512. And in the end it worked beautifully.

Nevers

Gorr · 29th April 2002, 00:13

Great!
Could you please point me to where I could find this tool? Producer's home page, etc.

Thanks

nullinvoid · 30th April 2002, 06:29

I'm curious as to how Pan & Scan info can be added to a movie unless there is some data already in the stream about what part of the frame to display on a 4:3 set...or does it just crop off both sides of the frame?

cupid59 · 30th April 2002, 10:15

Pixeltools add only information about display size (in DVD 512X576 or 512X480), but not information about position of frame into the picture. I'm working about this feature, but is under development.

Doom9 · 30th April 2002, 21:19

@gorr: I guess you've found it by now.. a google search turned up the following: http://www.pixeltools.com/MpegRepair.html

Gorr · 11th May 2002, 10:35

Thanks for the link Doom I just forgot about the thread all the way

This day I've sent a letter to them for a free demo.
Let's see what it can do...

henkjanl · 3rd September 2002, 14:34

Does anybody in this thread got mpegrepair inserting the pan&scan info into an mpeg file? I got version 1.591 and did some searching in this forum about how to do this(the help doesn't tell). But all I got is mpegrepair crashing or an error: Sequence Display Extention Found at offset:-4 Aborting Pan Scan Fix.
I am afraid I am overlooking something very simple because I have no idea how mpegrepair works, and the help file doesn't get me any further.
Maybe sombody can tell me step by step what to do when I want to insert pas&scan info into an existing DVD compliant m2v or mpg file (tried both).

Best regards,

Henk-Jan

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Gorr Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 94	How to make a pan and scan enabled dvd? How do I make a dvd which can support pan and scan play mode in scenarist? Thanks

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cupid59 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 23	For some reason related to DVD spec, you need to encode your video with embedded pan e scan information. So, you can enable both pan&scan and letterbox options. If your encoder do not permit to put into your file information about pan&scan you must to put with some kind of utility your data in your file. Cupid

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Gorr Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 94	Anyone know about such a utility?

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Nevers Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Seattle Posts: 4	When I put "Lord of the Rings" on DVD I used Pixeltools MPEGRepair to put in Pan & Scan information. It took about 75 minutes of processing time to do it on my AXP 1800+ 512. And in the end it worked beautifully. Nevers

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Gorr Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 94	Great! Could you please point me to where I could find this tool? Producer's home page, etc. Thanks

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nullinvoid Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 43	I'm curious as to how Pan & Scan info can be added to a movie unless there is some data already in the stream about what part of the frame to display on a 4:3 set...or does it just crop off both sides of the frame?

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cupid59 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 23	Pixeltools add only information about display size (in DVD 512X576 or 512X480), but not information about position of frame into the picture. I'm working about this feature, but is under development.

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Gorr Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 94	Thanks for the link Doom I just forgot about the thread all the way This day I've sent a letter to them for a free demo. Let's see what it can do...

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henkjanl Registered User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 10	Does anybody in this thread got mpegrepair inserting the pan&scan info into an mpeg file? I got version 1.591 and did some searching in this forum about how to do this(the help doesn't tell). But all I got is mpegrepair crashing or an error: Sequence Display Extention Found at offset:-4 Aborting Pan Scan Fix. I am afraid I am overlooking something very simple because I have no idea how mpegrepair works, and the help file doesn't get me any further. Maybe sombody can tell me step by step what to do when I want to insert pas&scan info into an existing DVD compliant m2v or mpg file (tried both). Best regards, Henk-Jan