After many questions ive asked about encoding, menus and all that ive finally created the DVD with an episode of a TV series on. lol Only problem im having is the size isn't quite right, when i play the DVD that i made, on my TV it cuts some of the picture out, so can anyone help me with this, thank you.
i had this "problem" too when i first started to get realy picky about what my home made dvds looked like. first, the problem: your dvd has about 10% or more cut off on all sides right? whats happening is that the video you made is definatly all there, dvd author and whatever video encoder you used didnt make cut that stuff off, it just made it too big for your tv and your tv is cutting it off. for a better understanding, just wiki "overscan" the solution: step one: download and burn the size test dvd from www.kvcd.net (http://www.kvcd.net/downloads/KDVDsamples-NTSC.rar) unrar it then burn it. step two: pop the size test dvd in your dvd player and select the resolution size that you are encoding your mpeg2 files to. it will give you the actual resolution your tv/dvd player shows adjusted for overscan. step three: find a resolution that has the least overscan on your tv/dvd player. or.... use the given resolution from step 2 and encode all your videos in that fixed size from now on. problems with this: when you make a dvd that is adjusted to fit your specific tv/dvd players overscan it will show thin black bars around the video on computers or any tv/dvd setup with less overscan than your tv. not realy a big deal but something to remeber. (also when you encode to a specific size it sometimes takes a load longer to encode). my particular tv wich is widescreen but a good 5 years old shows only anything within 640 pix when its suposed to be playing 704. pretty bad. i chalk it up to being one of the first mass produced widescreen tvs when it came out, i also got my dvd player at the same time so it might be contributing to the overscan. my dvd player was the first dvd player sony made that could play vcds, thats how old it is. little trick: the vast majority of the time movies (or high def tv show rips like the sopranos) that are released on xvid are already around 640 by whatever, so instead of me having to resize them properly i just lock them in that size and encode. because the encoder doesnt have to change the size at all the encode goes about twice as fast, i can encode a movie xvid to dvdmpeg2 in like 2.5 hours like that on a 2.5g pentium 4.
Hi when i try to burn all them files it wont let me its saying they arnt dvd compatible or something?
Yes it balks at the non standard files. You can use DVDShrink: http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/ which will use Nero to burn the DVD. or if you don't have Nero, you can tell Shrink to use DVD Decrypter: http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/
"Hi when i try to burn all them files it wont let me its saying they arnt dvd compatible or something?" are you refering to the ".rar" files? if so search for and download "winrar" then un-rar the rar files and burn the ts or iso file it produces. if you are refering to the video files you produced not being able to burn you must make them 704 (or whatever dvd standard size) but you must make the actual video slightly smaller inside it. what video encoding prog are you using?
