Burned a Sage Recording....funny line down the side

[sixdoubleo]

I just got a DVD burner today. I used ULEAD to burn 4 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm to a DVD. I believe the original quality on these was 2GB/hr.

Anyway, it looks good except there is a weird vertical line on the right hand side....and a thinner vertical line of the left hand side.

See attached screenshot.

Any ideas?

[fidget]

Originally posted by sixdoubleo
I just got a DVD burner today. I used ULEAD to burn 4 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm to a DVD. I believe the original quality on these was 2GB/hr.

Anyway, it looks good except there is a weird vertical line on the right hand side....and a thinner vertical line of the left hand side.

See attached screenshot.

Any ideas?

Was it one of the DVD settings or just a straight 2 GB/hr? I have burnt at all three DVD settings (3.25, 2.5, and 1.8 GB/hr) without seeing anything funny. I used MPEG2VCR to edit the files and ULEAD MovieMaker 2 to burn them to DVD. I have also burnt them "raw" (i.e., unedited by MPEG2VCR), as well.

[sixdoubleo]

Originally posted by fidget
Was it one of the DVD settings or just a straight 2 GB/hr? I have burnt at all three DVD settings (3.25, 2.5, and 1.8 GB/hr) without seeing anything funny. I used MPEG2VCR to edit the files and ULEAD MovieMaker 2 to burn them to DVD. I have also burnt them "raw" (i.e., unedited by MPEG2VCR), as well.

Unfortunately, it was the standard 2GB/hr. I just recently read a tip that I should be recording at 2.5GB/hr to maintain proper DVD format.

Doesn't ULEAD re-encode the 2GB to 2.5GB???

[fidget]

Originally posted by sixdoubleo
Unfortunately, it was the standard 2GB/hr. I just recently read a tip that I should be recording at 2.5GB/hr to maintain proper DVD format.

Doesn't ULEAD re-encode the 2GB to 2.5GB???

If you run it through ULEAD Studio (or whatever their editor is called) you could probably have it re-encoded. When I tried using their editor it took forever to re-encode and the resulting file was larger. It may be worth it to you to have ULEAD convert them all to the standard DVD format, but it will take a while (a looooooong while).

Try some experimentation, first, to make sure you have the settings correct.

[sixdoubleo]

OK....more info!

I have tried playing my 2GB and 2.5GB files in Windows Media Player, and everything that was recorded from a premium channel (regardless of the encoding quality) has those funny bars in WMP. However it doesn't have the bars when viewing in SageTV Client.

Things recorded from non-premium channels do NOT have the bars.

[SHS]

Thoses error you see are cuase by broadcast it self there nothing can you do but on reg TV you not see them becuases it in over scan aera.

[sixdoubleo]

Originally posted by SHS
Thoses error you see are cuase by broadcast it self there nothing can you do but on reg TV you not see them becuases it in over scan aera.

So then when you are playing back recordings with SageTV or SageTVClient, does it automatically push this information off the screen? Because I dont see these bars in Sage.

[justme]

Simple answer, yes.
Most of Sage's aspect ratio mode defaults are between 5% and 10% zoomed to mimic the "natural" behavior of a TV. You can change these settings in Setup>Detailed Setup>Multimedia tab. Each aspect ratio modes has it's own horizontal/vertical zoom percent settings. You can see this by selecting different aspect modes and watching the zoom settings change.