is there a way to correct this recording?

[varekai]

Hello

I recorded from cabel-TV the documentary "Moebius Redux" to my standalone DVD-recorder.
When broadcasted I noticed a change in the picture positioning on my widescreen-TV.
Normally the logo at top right is well inside the frame but at this moment, (this ocurred for a
couple of days actually), the logo was "pushed" to the right or perhaps the whole picture was blown up.
It is corrected now so there was probably something wrong with the broadcast.
Normally the recordings from my TV-cabel is perfect and I have never seen this before.

Look at this screendump, the red square is how it was displayed at the broadcast and how it was recorded.
When watching the DVD disc on my computer with Media Player Classic or PowerDVD the picture is perfect as
shown in the screendump but when watching on my standalone DVD player the picture is inside the red square.

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/8859/screendumpjl2.jpg

My question is if there's a way to correct this recording? Is there perhaps a tool I can use to correct this?

Any ideas on this is highly appreciated, thanks...

It was a great documentary, what an amazing artist Jean Giraud!

regards varekai

[cacepi]

My question is if there's a way to correct this recording? Is there perhaps a tool I can use to correct this?Quick answer: it's overscan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan).

There might be an option to correct overscan in your TV's config menu. If not, then you'll have to either live with it or re-encode the video with a black border around the entire video to compensate for the overscan.

[varekai]

Hello cacepi!

Thanks for answering, appreciate it! :)

No settings on my TV can fix this. This has only happened with this one recording.
I would like to try your suggestion re-encoding and adding black borders around the entire video.
Have no clue how to do that so could you show me the direction? What tools do I use?
Are there any guides on this subject?
Thanks...

regards varekai

[cacepi]

I would like to try your suggestion re-encoding and adding black borders around the entire video.
Have no clue how to do that so could you show me the direction? What tools do I use?
Are there any guides on this subject?
It's been a while since I've encoded a DVD, but the main tools to use would be DGIndex, AVISynth and an MPEG2 encoder that can accept AVISynth scripts. There are guides on Doom9 (http://www.doom9.org/) that cover all this and more in great detail.

Good luck!

[cdanddvdpublisher]

i too would suggest checking out the Doom9 guides; great information there that sums things up far better than I could

[varekai]

OK, thanks to all for helping, got some searching, reading and testing to do...

regards varekai