Help with Aspect Ratio. What is Titanic???

[Roveer]

I spun up my Netflix copy of Titanic last night and can't seem to figure out what aspect ratio it's in. Using PowerDVD when you play a widescreen movie, the box usually enlarges to a 16:9 type display, most certinly different than a 4:3. When I ran Titanic, it left the box at the square 4:3 display but gave me black bars on the top and the bottom of the 4:3 display. Does anyone know what ratio this is? Was it a player screw-up???

Very Strange.

Roveer

[Atlantis]

Don't you mean 16/9 with black bars? That's 2.35:1.

[Roveer]

I've seen 16/9 with black bars. This is NOT the same. I swear this was the standard square 4:3 display with black bars. It seemed like a very narrow picture like 2.35:1, but the screen was still square.

Any ideas? This was using PowerDVD. Maybe it wasn't properly switching screens? The picture looked correct, not squashed or stretched.

Regards,

Roveer

[fistula]

titanic is non anamorphic.... = 4x3 with black bars

[Roveer]

That's exactly what it looks like!!!

[Atlantis]

Ah yes, now I remember. Indeed Titanic is non-anamorphic!

[bumblebe]

and it's also competely screwed up in terms of mixing up interlaced and progressive frames.
Havs anyone had success reencoding it? It seeme Reempeg isn't going to be an option :-(

[DIggedy]

I think being an old non-anamorphic transfer it's completely interlaced. They just used the laserdisc transfer for the dvd.

[bumblebe]

It's not that old is it?

But yes it's all "screwed" up from our perspective, which brings the question, what about reencoding it at 29.97fps. That's a trick that used to work with SVCDs. Granted, you lost bandwidth/frame, but at least you knew it worked!

I'll see if Ifoedit can handle that with templates.