She should get it in widescreen, do a preview of the menu's in the wizard and you can kick off the video to see what format it will be in.
wait... you say she's somewhere in Eastern Europe? Just hope she can watch NTSC videos there! It's quite likely that she can't unless she's got a decent brand TV made in the last 15-20 years or so...
Okay, I'm back on this thing again. I sent my sister a wave of DVDs, and she said the audio on some episodes was skewed at the end. I told her I would look into it on the next batch I made. Sure enough, two out of 4 episodes has skewed audio. The only reason I can think of is b/c they're done w/ different audio bitrates (which seems to be the cases) and Nero is probably sloppy and just thinks it's one. Any suggestion on where to go next? I've tried joining them in VirtualDub, but it bitches that the video rate is off (one is 23.397 fps and the other is 23.396) :/ Frustrating
heh, you are fucked , i once had a similar problem "source was 15fps" and could never make it work correctly .
Oh, that's not good! But it's fixable. Check the framerates of all the videos before joining them - they have to be the same framerate (either 23.976 or 29.97fps for NTSC), otherwise it will go out of sync with the aduio. Anything around about 23.976 are easily fixable - all you need to do is use VirtualDub to change the framerate (not "convert" - the thing that just makes it a different framerate without actually changing the frames) to 23.976 and do a "direct stream copy" so that it doesn't need to recrompress the video (it'll save a lot of time and quality). Then demux the audio (should be able to do this in the "streams" section of VirtualDub), and get BeSweetGUI - this is an audio transcoder, and can do framerate conversions of the audio as well. Select the framerate changy thing in that (near the bottom left corner), and with that you can convert the audio from MP3 (or whatever it is originally) to MP2 or AC3 (DVD standard - MP2's probably easier to do) *and* change the speed to the new framerate at the same time! It's a bit confusing to use but I can make a guide if you want. If any of the videos you are joining are 29.97fps, and you're joining with 23.976 films in VDub, that'll fudge things up even worse. Don't hesitate to ask me about any of this stuff - I've actually made some DVDs since the last time I posted (no more SVCDs for me!), and I have done a good few NTSC-to-PAL conversions which invloves changing the framerate from 23.976 to 25fps - which when done wrong ends up with similarly annoying audio sync wrongness.
Well, the main problem with my videos is that Virtual Dub can't find a suitable decompressor for the audio (even though AVICodec says they're all Mpeg3). So if I try direct streaming the audio while setting the framerates to a common setting, the audio gets fucked up before DVD'ing them. Starting to become more work than it's worth.
Can you demux the audio stream (i.e. save it to a separate file) in VDub? In theory, that *should* still be possible without a suitable codec, but in theory communism works... If you can demultiplex it, then just delete (or disable) the stream and try doing the direct stream thing again. VDub doesn't tend to like MP3 audio, so it's best to let it avoid processing the audio at all in a situation like this.
Oh, sorry - which VirtualDub are you using? Because I just realised it's VirtualDubMod that has all the stream selection stuff...
VirtualDub has alawys had streaming audio/video if you didn't want to make any changes to it. I'm using 1.6.4 I think... somewhere around thelatest one. It's probably not worth it. I told my sister to buy a modded Xbox or a DVD player that plays this shit.
