How to unpack DVD movie to edit it's video/sound?

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Thu Aug 25 01:35:04 UTC 2005


Don Levey writes:

> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:18 -0400, Don Levey wrote:
> 
>> Just for amusement, I tried this procedure.  First, I set up and
>> mofidied the script slightly, made sure the appropriate packages were
>> installed, then ran it.  I set up a basic dvd.xml file, created the DVD
>> files, and burned the DVD.  It worked - mostly.  What was interesting is
>> that while the DVD seems to have copied, the aspect ratio was off.
>> While the original disk was in 16:9, the copy plays in full-screen.
>> Clearly I've missed something here, since the dvdauthor output clearly
>> stated it was in 16:9 format.  Any thoughts?  I'd hate to screw up my
>> home movies, etc, when doing this.
>> 
> To follow up: Argh!  The copy plays using full-screen on my home DVD
> player.  However, when playing via Xine, I get the full 16:9 aspect
> ratio.  Clearly, there's something else I need to do.  Anyone ever deal
> with this before?  Perhaps my home DVD player is at fault, but I don't
> have a second one with which to test.

Try poking around your DVD player's configuration screen.  Many have options 
for choosing what to do with widescreen video.


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