On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 18:28 +0100, Chris Glover wrote:
Took me ages last time I tried using the Gimp to do it. Ended up with a slightly distorted menu as I told dvdauthor it was 16:9 when it should be 4:3 DOH! :-)
Yeh doing stuff for TV does that to you, careful choice of fonts is also required as it is easy to forget what poor resolution does to small typefaces...also been caught out once today by dvd-slideshow defaulting to NTSC output.
Yep I know all about doing stuff for TV. I'm the nightshift engineer looking after BBC1 at the moment :-)
Do you know how much different (hardware) players drift from spec (beyond some not liking some recordable media) If my menus and transitions and stuff all work on player A then it is reasonable to assume that it is likely to play on all players (remembering early versions of Xine DVD-NAV not liking some disks here) ?
Some players are not very tolerent of some MPEG2 clips. I've found that some DVB mpeg2 will not play on cheaper players. I put the first 4 episodes of Lost onto DVD, which my 5 year old Panasonic player was fine with, but my parents Cyberhome player had massive lip sync errors.
I'm going to keep fighting with doing menus. After I've done it a few times, I think I might be able to get it right!