How to unpack DVD movie to edit it's video/sound?
Don Levey
fedora-list at the-leveys.us
Thu Aug 25 02:10:04 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 21:35 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 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.
>
I took a look at that, but haven't found anything to explain the
behaviour. Playing a commercial wide-screen DVD renders properly 1t
16:9. It's only my self-mastered CDs which play full-screen, even if
only on this player.
-Don
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