Display issue or DVD player issue?

I have a project which is aspected 16 x 9.
When it plays on one DVD player it forces it to 4 x 3 and displays it as letterbox and nothing is squashed or stretched. No problem.
On another DVD player (playing on a 4 x 3 monitor) it plays the 16 x 9 DVD as a stretched out 4 x 3.
Is this likely a DVD player setting? My client is freaking out and wants answers. Thanks in advance for your help.

If you have all your settings right (16:9 letterbox) then that is all you can do. DVD players can be set to override your settings and force the video to be 4:3, and there isn't a thing (as the DVD programmer) you can do about it.

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I'm authoring a DVD for a live show. The disk has 30 or so tracks with 30 menus. ie. track one finishes and jumps to menu two untill operator presses enter etc etc.. He needs to be able to see what menu is loaded on the dvd player display.
Can anyon please tell me if it's possible to set menu numbers in DVD studio pro so they will show up on DVD player display. Using DSP 4.
Cheers.

I had a follow up thought about this, what is the advantage of knowing which menu you're on? Presumably it would be because you might be on the wrong one, and would like to know that. If you're on the wrong one, what would you do about it? Here's an idea:
Make each of your menus have three buttons, with the center one as the default. Pressing Enter would make it play the next video, and that would lead onto the following menu. Pressing the left button and then select would take you back to the previous menu, and pressing right and enter would take you forward to the following menu. This way you can easily get across to the correct menu without the audience knowing that anything had happened.
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Of course, if the buttons are near the edge of the video picture and the audience can't see them, then you could possibly use a subtle highlight color, and what I've said above wouldn't be an issue.

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Absolutely it cannot be done. Gefen might sell some kind of box that would allow this type of interface, but a simple cable adapter, no.

Does the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display have a DVD player?

I don' see it in the pictures...

Did you not check the specifications and capabilities before you bought http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ ?

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I have never had this problem in three y ears and I am so far stumped. Read the manual, looked in this forum, overlooked all my preferences and triple checked my project settings. here is the issue
I see no time display or chapter display on my DVD player when I test my DVD. I was wondering if this could be an issue in the encoding process. I did not compress the files, I was given the DVD authoring job after the editor left, and the original media was lost on a melted drive so I am told. THe only way I could do the job was to rip the elemental streams from a test DVD and use those to create a new DVDSP project. Did the editor screw something up in the compression? Or am I screwing something up in the authoring?
In the past I have been know to overlook something obvious, so please, any input is welcome, even if you think, "he must have done that. . ." don't be so sure. . .
Just to clarify, my Toshiba DVD player shows a blank time display and only tells me what title I am in, but not which chapter. Apple DVD player shows both. And the Toshiba shows both with every other DVD I put in there.
Where do I look. . .
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Hook up a dvd player on a display

is it possible to basically use the studio display with a dvd player, without going through a computer?
Why, you might think? Because my powermac G4 is so loud that watching movies in my bedroom is becoming annoying.
I am pretty sure it is not possible, but you guys solved so many of my problems in the past that i keep hope!!!
Thx

It is in fact.
And according to my great grand aunt, Wanda Pilsudska
(not his daughter), we are related.
Wow!!!
I took your email, and I will try to collect some information about him for you.
We will be in contact - I'll send you an email soon, so you will have the main.
BTW, I suppose you don't speak Polish, do you? For me would be more easy to find some "ours" information. But if you don't speak, that's OK - give me some time to prepare/collect the infos.
Pozdrawiam,
Marek.

How to display the name of the audio tracks on a dvd player?

Hi, I use DVD studio pro to make a dvd with a video track and two audio tracks. One is for stereo and the other is for 5.1 surround, in the same language (A1 and A2) . Is it possible to set the stream language in the way that on the display of the dvd player appear the name of the audio stream: stereo or surround?
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Hi me01
Welcome to apple discussions. Try using 99 photos / less to avoid issues with audio fades / drops. Also do a search for Memorex on this forum and you'll see it's not the first choice of dvd's for most users. Instead try Verbatim, Maxell, or Taiyo Yuden and burn at 4x from a disc image for best results. Wish you luck and feel free to post back with results or any further questions.
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DVD player artifact issue on certain player only

Can anyone tell me please why this is happening!!
I'm nearly finished with a documentary project. It's 64 minutes long. I used the DVD 90 minute Best settings with Dolby audio in Compressor and DVDSP build and burn. It works fine in the simulator in DVDSP and in my home and office DVD player. But my client gave me six pages of notes reporting what she called "skipping". I re-tested the DVD in my player and still wasn't seeing an issue. So I watched it on her player and noticed some artifacting and dropped frames.
I thought it might be due to a dirty player. So I had her do a cleaning and there will still some issues though not as many.
Why would this happen?
I'm concerned because if I cannot even see the problem on my players, how will I know if I've solved it? I've searched the forums and found similar questions, but nothing exactly like this.
Grateful for any help you can provide:)

There are MANY reasons why certain players skip and others do not. Some players by nature are better designed to play DVD-R. Some are simply more forgiving. While one player happily plays over problem areas, others choke.
Most of the times, the problem results from poor quality DVD-R media. There are actually 4 different grades A, B, C & F! You should ONLY be using A grade media.
Those cheap 100 disc $19.99 spindles at the local Costco, Wal-mart etc., may sound like a deal, however, most are useful only as drink coasters and even when a disc gets recorded to what may seem to be correct, in actuality, is not.
Surf to http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/index.htm for more details on which media you should be using.
Are you by any chance using a PAPER LABEL on the disc? If so, STOP. Buy printable surface media ONLY. Invest in a Bravo printer and you won't go wrong.
Many players do not handle media well with a paper label on it.
Finally, make sure you're burning a 1X (yes I said ONE TIMES) speed! Errors will creep up in quick burns that will also result in problems.
If you are doing everything right, it could be her player!
Regards,
Darren

Encore DVD Writing Cancels won't play on DVD player issue

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When I press build everything works fine. Then writing begins. The moment the writing reaches the end of the progress bar (the exact moment) the progress bar goes to empty and the bottom bar says canceling and ejects the DVD. Usually (not every time) a pop up menu saying "end of file" appears next. When I press ok for end of file message the pop up disappears and suddenly the DVD progress bar is filled and the DVD says completed (as if nothing just happened). So I'm confused whether it worked or not!
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I went ahead and got Toast, but considering that the Image Iso and the DVD Folder both gave me the End of File Error and the Disc "Failed Completed" Error I figured it a no go and it was. It did however give me something that Opened everywhere (Mac,Xbox,Dvd) , but it did not play on the Dvd correctly.
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no silver bullet solution to all.
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PowerDVD 10 in a Bootcamp windows7 when I want full DTS-HD or
TRUE HD decoding (decodes these to up to 24 bit,192kHz 7.1 since the
Mini chipset does not have the "protected" path for pass through of
these technologies) or a MakeMKV/XBMC combo in OSX. The OSX
solution doesn't give you the fancy menus and all or HD audio if present,
but if I only want to watch the movies it's fine. If I ever do want the other
nonsense, I just use PowerDVD 10. And please note this is BluRay disk
in player, not "ripped" or transcoded.
I do appreciate your help, but was primarily curious if others had issue
as well.
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Barry

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