i have downloaded a movie, converted it into dvd with vso (divx to dvd)and burt it with nero express. it plays fine but some of the picture is missing on each side when it plays. i am not a very technical person but i do manage the basics, i have tried different setting on the tv but no joy. is there some piece of excellent software that can help? can i adjust somthing in the converting/burning software i am already using? or do i simply have to choose a different type of download? thank for any advice.
Many of the freeware sites have DivX software players for your PC. Use it to check to see if you have the entire movie. What are you referring to when you say "it plays fine but some of the picture is missing on each side when it plays"? Unless you have a flipper, DVDs only have one side. If you break a movie into two segments, then you may be losing something in the editing process. Convert your movie to a hard drive folder. Then check where you have the break and make sure all is there. PowerDVD or the like will play DVD files from the HD. DVD Shrink (free) or some of the retail apps can finish the process for you. Manually editing on your own can cause issues. For beginners, it's best to use the software. I've never used Nero Express to split DVD files, if that is what you did. I normally use Recode (in Nero Ultra) and compress movie files to fit on a single disc.
sorry for not explaning fully, by some of the picture is missing i mean that when the movie plays the tv is only showing the middle 6/8th of the film its like the movie is in wide screen, the tv is in normal and rest is lost. i must add that our tv is quite new and does have a wide screen mode but this does`nt seem to make a differents when i set it up.
Ok. Sounds like you just got a WS movie. With widescreen you see the panoramic view which entails the top and bottom of a regular screen be left unused. If stretched to fit the full screen, the figures would look ridiculously tall. I've gone over this with the wife a few times. Part of the movie isn't missing, you're getting to see what is on both sides. The picture just isn't as large as if it was edited for TV. When the entire screen is filled with an edited movie, they usually center on the focus of the scene, but the sides get cut off. You don't see what's missing, but the sides are cut off to edit WS to the full TV screen. If your TV incorporates the technology to fill the entire screen from a WS movie, check to see if it isn't losing the sides of the WS movies. The newer high definition TVs with the broader screens aren't quite as bad with WS, but there's still a bit of unused screen with WS and some of edge is still lost with "edited for TV". It just boils down to whether you want to see the movie as it was intended for theater viewing. I have a 60 inch screen, so the unused screen still leaves a large picture to view. On smaller sets, depending on how small, getting the smaller picture can be annoying.
Forgot to mention, check out the RB/CCE forum. There may be an option for encoding to full screen from a widescreen source. I heard someone mention it somewhere before.
