Hi I'm sort of new to this, but maybe someone can help me out. I'm trying to author an MPEG2 file that happens to be 29.970 fps and 640x576 (although it appears more 640x288). I tried to just throw it in DVD Lab Pro (as NTSC) and burned with some warnings (I had "Accept non-DVD sizes" checked). It looks fine on a computer but when I play on my standalone Philips DVP-642 the picture has a big bar on the right and huge macro-blocking on the bottom. I burned again as a PAL with same settings checked and the picture has a very large bar at the top and is cropped to some extent at the bottom. Also I had my aspect ratio set at 4:3 for both projects. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
yep..Did you use an Encoder to convert from X to mpeg2 or did the video come into you possession this way? You can re-encode it to proper format NTSC 720x480 29.97fps or PAL 720x576 25fps It appears to be a PAL video that's had it's framerate converted to NTSC but not it's framesize. The (accept non-DVD size) will allow you to keep a PAL 640x576 but not a NTSC that's OVER size(480) strange ay. Also, I'm surprised it allowed you to make a PAL at 29.97 at all. On the bright side, atleast your Philips tried to Play it! Sometimes, they(players) just refuse to do anything and you're left wondering which problem caused the falure ..PAL, framerate, Size or all of the above. Ok, 4:3 is for fullscreen(Basic Square) TV, 16:9 is widescreen (black Bars top/bottom on standard TV) You've got to keep settings the same...if your source Mpeg is Widescreen, your project settings better be same. Vice virsa.
Unfortunately the video came into my possesion like this. I'm going to try and compile and burn this as 16:9 and post results after.
