tytool and DVDAuthor options

[6021tivo]

Any help is really appriciated.

I have a UK SA TiVo, it records in Widescreen 16:9 and 4:3.

With tytool it always writes at 4:3.

Looking at dvdauthor /? there is an option for the video --video or -v, the make.bat that is created by tytool 7r7 does not use this option so therefore defaults at NTSC, 4:3, 720xfull

If I edit the make.bat and use the options for 16:9 and pal, it failes with faile to convert etc... continues to make the vobs, but ignores the pal, 16:9 etc option.

Any ideas??
Phil

[jdiner]

Originally posted by 6021tivo
Any help is really appriciated.

I have a UK SA TiVo, it records in Widescreen 16:9 and 4:3.

With tytool it always writes at 4:3.

Looking at dvdauthor /? there is an option for the video --video or -v, the make.bat that is created by tytool 7r7 does not use this option so therefore defaults at NTSC, 4:3, 720xfull

If I edit the make.bat and use the options for 16:9 and pal, it failes with faile to convert etc... continues to make the vobs, but ignores the pal, 16:9 etc option.

Ok. TyTool doesn't change or alter the resolution fields in the Video ES at all. So it would be whatever is there on the tivo itself.

Are you certain these are widescreen 16:9 streams datawise?

As for why dvdauthor would fail on it I don't know. It looks at the data as well to try and automatically determine what is there and what is set. If it can't link into the data and find the 16:9 resolution setting then it can't find it either.

There are mpeg analysis tools that will tell you that. Probably one of the easiest is to load it into bbmpeg and see what it says is actually there inside the stream.

--jdiner

[6021tivo]

Thanks for the reply, the resolution coming from one of your streams is the same for 4:3 as for wide screen. The tivo keeps the encoded code in the TV data that switches the television from 4:3 to 19:6 automatically.
DVD author says at the end it is a pal 4:3 stream on all streams. So I am a little stuck, I had heard but can not find some software that can add the black bars in the top and bottom of the vobs, if this was the case, I can get the TV to zoom in and this would work?.

Any ideas for this SW, it would have to work on the vobs, as the tytools methods from tivo - vobs is the best, nice and reliable and quick..

Keep up the great work..

[dattrax]

Hi,

I'm also in the UK and using a SA Tivo unit. To mark my file as 16:9 I use a program called DVDpatcher (http://kickme.to/DVDPatcher). It will change the aspect, as well as other stuff, without re-encoding. It takes about 1 minute to scan the whole file.

Jim

[jdiner]

Originally posted by 6021tivo
Thanks for the reply, the resolution coming from one of your streams is the same for 4:3 as for wide screen. The tivo keeps the encoded code in the TV data that switches the television from 4:3 to 19:6 automatically.

Ok. You will have to use something like dvdpatcher then. (Sorry I had this window up and meant to send this out awhile ago...)

The problem is that for the MPEG itself there is a set of burried headers that set the resolution. In this case it would seem the tivo itself is saving out 4:3 headers and the data is to be used to switch output resolutions.

If you switch the headers which DVDPatcher can do. The option is "Aspect Ratio" then the file should work and DVD Author should automagically react to it correctly and go from there.

--jdiner

[jdiner]

Ah... Looks like someone beat me to the punch... :)

--jdiner