This is what needs to be done. I think, one can not change the
format inside a title, so if you want to do it, you have to make
files with different formats into separate titles and play them
one after the other. Unfortunately, on some DVD players pause a little
in the transition between the titles which might make the movie look
bad.
I also discovered you can't explicitly change the format for each
seperate title but only for seperate titlesets. So I tried putting the
different aspect footage each in a different titleset.
See the attached dvdauthor.xml. Make sure you include the jumppad
command at the top - it creates a dummy menu for each titleset so the
vmgm master menu can refer to this.
I also found out that if you don't specify resolution, aspect etc. then
the dvd player infers this from the footage. So you could probably just
use the 'nopanscan' video format for the titleset, keep all the titles
in a single titleset, and then let the dvd player infer the different
aspect ratios from the footage. From what ZF posted I'm guessing the
different aspect footage does need to be split up into different titles
at the least.
all the best
Graham
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-15'?><dvdauthor dest="/home/gray/video/mencodes/dwiq//DVD" jumppad="yes">
<vmgm>
<menus>
<video format="PAL" resolution="720x576" />
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/gray/video/mencodes/dwiq//genmenu.mpg" pause="inf"/>
<button name="0"> jump titleset 1 title 1; </button>
<button name="1"> jump titleset 2 title 1; </button>
<button name="2"> jump titleset 3 title 1; </button>
<button name="3"> jump titleset 4 title 1; </button>
<button name="4"> jump titleset 5 title 1; </button>
<button name="5"> jump titleset 6 title 1; </button>
<button name="6"> jump titleset 7 title 1; </button>
</pgc>
</menus>
</vmgm>
<titleset>
<titles>
<video format="PAL" aspect="16:9" resolution="720x576" widescreen="nopanscan" />
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/gray/video/mencodes/dwiq//gibvideo0.mpg"/>
<post>call vmgm menu;</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
<titleset>
<titles>
<video format="PAL" aspect="16:9" resolution="720x576" widescreen="nopanscan" />
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/gray/video/mencodes/dwiq//gibvideo1.mpg"/>
<post>call vmgm menu;</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
<titleset>
<titles>
<video format="PAL" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576" />
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/gray/video/mencodes/dwiq//gibvideo2.mpg"/>
<post>call vmgm menu;</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
<titleset>
<titles>
<video format="PAL" aspect="16:9" resolution="720x576" widescreen="nopanscan" />
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/gray/video/mencodes/dwiq//gibvideo3.mpg"/>
<post>call vmgm menu;</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
<titleset>
<titles>
<video format="PAL" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576" />
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/gray/video/mencodes/dwiq//gibvideo4.mpg"/>
<post>call vmgm menu;</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
<titleset>
<titles>
<video format="PAL" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576" />
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/gray/video/mencodes/dwiq//gibvideo5.mpg"/>
<post>call vmgm menu;</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
<titleset>
<titles>
<video format="PAL" aspect="4:3" resolution="720x576" />
<pgc>
<vob file="/home/gray/video/mencodes/dwiq//gibvideo6.mpg"/>
<post>call vmgm menu;</post>
</pgc>
</titles>
</titleset>
</dvdauthor>
