DVDSP DVDs only cropped or squished in certain players

[Eric Pautsch]

It’s because you don’t have your Player set up properly according to your monitor. Look in the players menu

How and why are you set up pan/scan? Did you encode p/s? That needs to be letterbox

Also, did you remember to encode 16×9, not 4×3?

[Jessica Lawheed]

Hi! Thank you for responding.

I will look in the player set-up, but my concern is that when we send it to festivals, they wont be able to see it properly, and will chuck it out-right if the player needs to be adjusted. Yes, I did encode 16:9 but not sure about p/s- I only tried it in dvdsp because I was ruling things out.

Here is part of the log info from the compression:

Stream Type: MPEG-2 Video Elementary
Frame Dimensions: 720×480
Frame Rate: 29.970030 progressive, pulldown from 23.976025
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Video Format: NTSC / SMPTE 170M
Chroma Format: 4:2:0
GOP Pattern: 12/3 closed IBB
Rate Control: 2-pass VBR 3700000 bps target, 7500000 bps max
Motion Estimation: +l2orig+l0mbloop+smoothing
Search Range: 16×16
RD Optimization: +fast+dct+mode
Flags: 0x2
Visual Masking: on
Intra DC Precision: 8-bit
Quant Scale Mode: auto
Intra VLC Mode: auto
Coef Scan Mode: auto
Quant Matrix: 1
Segment Type: last

When I letter box it though, it gets letter boxed on my 16:9 television, so it’s squished- and thats with my TV being set to view 16:9. I can zoom in on my tv and it fits fine, but now it’s slightly pixelated, and that’s also another thing I don’t want to have to have a judge mess around with at a festival. Or is there always some version of that, and it’s acceptable?

Thanks again.

[Michael Sacci]

There is no setting when authoring to fix faulty DVD player/tv setup. I would assume all festivals have there gear setup correctly. If they don’t there is nothing you can do about it. Other than hand delivering and setup it up for eat one of them.

[Kylee Pena]

You should try to test your DVD in several DVD players if it’s important, that’ll help you figure out if it’s an authoring issue or a DVD player issue.

I’d say go try it in a few other players since it seems to be something wrong with your setup.

[Jessica Lawheed]

Thank you.

I have actually just given it to another person and he put it in his DVD player- cropped. But on his PS3 it’s fine. Seems to be an HDMI connection thing, but I can’t find ANY setting out of dvdsp that my dvd player or his dvd player will accept outright.

[Michael Sacci]

There is NO setting for you to change in dvdsp. It is what it is. If it is just being cropped it is just an overscan deal, which is why there is still action safe. If is distorting or zooming it is a player or TV setup problem. You can try it on a hundred TVs and players but there is nothing you can do in dvdsp or another DVD authoring software.