iDVD 16:9 Widescreen

[Sycho]

What is the easist way to creat a video in iDVD that is widescreen. At school I have a bunch of anamorphic video's and want to put them on a dvd with anamorphic widescreen, I know that iDVD does not support widescreen and DVD studio does, but iDVD is my only option

[Dimmer]

Originally posted by sycho
What is the easist way to creat a video in iDVD that is widescreen. At school I have a bunch of anamorphic video's and want to put them on a dvd with anamorphic widescreen, I know that iDVD does not support widescreen and DVD studio does, but iDVD is my only option Well, that's a bit of a contradiction, isn't it? How can you expect to make an anmorphic DVD with iDVD only if it doesn't support it?

However, if you can get ahold of a PC, you can fix that using freeware. Before authoring, ensure that your anamorphic MPEG-2 video is flagged as such. The flag is actually stored within MPEG header, and you can view and update it to 16:9 using ReStream (see download page). It accepts only elementary .m2v streams, so you might need to demux your mpegs first.

Then author a 4:3 DVD so it would look "squeezed" on a 4:3 screen, transfer it to a PC's HDD, and set 16:9 flag using IfoEdit in each VTS_xx_0.IFO file where it says Titleset (Movie) attributes. Don't mix 16:9 and 4:3 content in one VTS.