some month ago i ripped some tv series from digital tv to the harddisk. I transformed and cut the original streams with projectX and mplexed it with mplex to get a DVD compliant mpeg2 file. So far so good. In the past i used a script called "dvdwizzard" to author files I treated this way to dvd and it was fine. Unfortunately the script could not handle multiple files and i need to autor like 8 smaller 20min series to one dvd. If i try autoring the files manually with dvdautor or due a gui like kmediafactory or qdvdauthor i get a nice dvd with all menu and stuff but the picture doesn't strech up on the tv. Means only the 2/3 of the left screen is filled. That should be the result of the fact, that the tv-format is 480x576 instead of 720x576.
Now the question
-> What is needed to tell the tv that the picture must be streched to fill the screen. I read some issues, that maybe the first frame has a different format, but this aint the point here. (by the way.. xine playes the dvd all fine)
-> Meanwhile i got sick of playing around and wasting a lot of time finding the flag for that "zoom-funktion". I would also be fine, if someone could tell me how to transcode the captured mpeg to the full size 480x576 -> 720x576), so that there is no question left what size to play on the tv. I went through the transcode manual but i think i need to zoom in the import stream and didnt find the right syntax.
Thanx for reading
Fir3fly
Means from 400MB to 800MB a 20min episode.