Hi,

There's probably a simple solution for this, but with the plethora of options I'm not sure what it is. I am trying to master a DVD from converted TiVo programs. A windows utility, direct-show-dump, changes them into mpeg format. In order to get a DVD that's playable on a standalone player, I use tcextract to separate the mpeg file into audio and video, then recombine:

% cat *.mpg | tcextract -a 0 -x mp3 -t vob > audio.mp3
% cat *.mpg | tcextract -x mpeg2 -t vob > video.m2v
% mplex -f 8 -o av.mpg video.m2v audio.mp3

The resulting av.mpg file can be mastered to a standard "VIDEO_TS" UDF structure and burned to DVD. It plays perfectly under, e.g. xine on my computer, but on a standalone player it shows me 1-1/2 copies of the picture! I see the entire frame on the left, occupying about 3/4 of the screen, with the left 1/4 of the same frame redundantly displayed on the right.

I can't find anything directly on point by a Google search (although the problem may be finding a reasonable phrase or keyword to describe it).

Can someone explain what's required in order to render properly? If it helps, the original program was in what looks to be 16:9; filling the screen horizontally, but with black regions above and below (as is typical with newer HD programming when delivered to NTSC televisions).

Steve

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