Previews with letterbox, plays cropped

Hey there,
I'm importing an .AVI that's letterboxed into iDVD5. It seems to preview fine from iDVD and says Widescreen Preview in the bottom right corner. But when I play it in my external DVD player it zooms in and stretches the image to fit 4:3. This also happens when i play the DVD file on my computer with the OSX DVD player. I tried to export my .AVI from Quicktime Pro 7 to .MOV but that took forever and didn't solve the problem in IDVD. Any suggestions on how to actually burn this as a letterboxed DVD ?
Thanks.

Steffan,
Letterboxing movies in iDVD is still problematic. Even iMovie 16:9 movies don't letterbox correctly on many DVD players and 4:3 TVs (but do work on some 4:3 setups). These movies tend to work just perfect on 16:9 TVs, so the issue is making one DVD that can work well on both TV formats.
You can find more help here:
http://dvd.kentidwell.com/?pageid=79#169
Hard to say whether your probelm is the AVI (since it does preview fine). The "Zoom in" on your DVD player may be it's setup. Go into the menus and set the default to letterbox and not "pan & scan".
However, if everything is working correctly (or I should say as good as iDVD gets right now), the Apple DVD player should show your movie in letterbox....so you might need to convert that AVI to a .mov and use the anamorphicizer at the link I provided above. And if you really want it to work on most 4:3 TVs, you'll have to go through the cookbook instructions too.
Hope this helps, and I hope Apple fixes the "cookbook" issue too.
John B.

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