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Atlantis
3rd March 2002, 18:04
I have a problem to set a 16x9 video in scenarist to pan and scan! How can you make it (pan and scan) and wide only but I don't want it to be letterbox!
cupid59
6th March 2002, 16:04
Uh, you have very deep trouble!
Pan&Scan feature is a ENCODING feature, so, if your coder (software or hardware) do not put in to the MPEG2 file information about pan&Scan, Scenarist do not permit you to change this. DVD Maestro can change this setting, but it is very dangerous: some player can display erroneus part of image!
To solve this problem, I wrote a utility to add Pan&Scan information in Mpeg2 files, but only to center the image. True pan&scan permit frame by frame basis to "pan" to see the true important part of view. This part of my utility is under develope.
Cupid
Atlantis
9th March 2002, 00:33
By the way, I’m wondering how can I find out if a player is set to wide or 4:3. The scenario is that I want to author two menus, one 16:9 and the other 4:3. Both are for the same program. I just want to read how the player is set and jump to the appropriate menu. If I remember correctly, you posted a question about this long before! Do you know how it is possible? I think that SPRM 14 gives the configurations but depending on the aspect ratio of the playing file and also the player, I get different values. I have gotten 3072 and 0 for wide. 3328 and 256 for pan and scan. 3840, 3584 and 512 for letterbox and finally 0 for 4:3. Do you have any simpler solution?
cupid59
9th March 2002, 16:36
You remember right, but nobody send me a solution. The players I have do different results at the same setting, so, I don't know how solve the problem. But you can set a different hilite for 4:3, lb or p&s, If it is useful.
Atlantis
9th March 2002, 17:11
Yes, but I want different backgrounds too. I will try to work on this and see what happens!
Atlantis
9th March 2002, 17:57
Yaaaaaahhhhhoooooooo. I just found the solution. :D I put all the numbers in front of me and started to think and baaammm, I had a flash of light! You have to check if SPRM 14 is modulo 1024. If it is, the player is set to 16:9, if it is not, it is set to 4:3. I tried it and it works! At least in Scenarist simulation. Tomorrow I will also burn a DVD-R.
tom para
9th March 2002, 21:33
I've tried this nifty "SPRM sniffing" thing in the past too. Lately I've abandoned it in favor of setting 1st play to a menu with 2 choices "normal" or "widescreen".
Atlantis
9th March 2002, 22:52
Try this! It works!
cupid59
11th March 2002, 19:11
Only some bits of sprm14 is useful, so, I thin your soloution is good, but... All work in scenarist simulation, not in "real life". I have a Toshiba player, and data in sprm14 is DIFFERENT from others player, also with bitwise extraction. May be I need to read sprm14 at very first time, at pre of first play. Now i try with some DVD-RW
Atlantis
11th March 2002, 22:24
Yes, please try and let me know!
cupid59
12th March 2002, 09:07
Only some bits of sprm14 is useful, so, I thin your soloution is good, but... All work in scenarist simulation, not in "real life". I have a Toshiba player, and data in sprm14 is DIFFERENT from others player, also with bitwise extraction. May be I need to read sprm14 at very first time, at pre of first play. Now i try with some DVD-RW