I borrowed a neighbor's tape-to-DVD converter. I think it was a Sony. As I watched each tape being recorded, the aspect ratio was the correct 4:3. When I played-back the DVDs, they were stretched on my TV into widescreen. I wanted to create a DVD with menus, but all my PC software displays the movies in widescreen? (The mediainfo utility reports the files are 4:3.) Is there any way to correct this?
The VOB files AR can be checked by dragging into MediaInfo or Gspot.
Assuming that the problem is with the .IFO files and not the .VOB files, download IfoEdit.
Using a copy of the VIDEO_TS folder, run IfoEdit and open the IFO files.
Open VIDEO_TS.IFO; scroll down to the listing where it shows the video.
Double click on it and change the AR to 4:3 and de-select "automatic letterbox".
Save the changes back to VIDEO_TS.IFO and agree to backup any other files.
Open VTS_01_0.IFO repeat the changes and Save;agree to backup any other files..
Pardon me for jumping in, but DVD players have a control in the
video settings where you can set either 4:3 or 16/9 TV.
The affect of this control has to do with how anamorphic DVD's are played.
If an Anamorphic DVD is present and the DVD player is set to 4:3, the player
itself squashes the picture (vertically) so the the aspect ratio is correct on
4:3 TV's.
Otherwise the picture fills the whole screen top to bottom (assuming the dvd picture
doesn't have any hard coded black bars, which might be the case if the A/R of the
content is actually wide than 16/9.
Play the DVD on the computer.. Does it play with the correct A/R ?
