Chewtobacca said:

Mavimao said:

I just wanted to point out a quirk about the ESB DVD 5 despecialized version. So I guess this is for Chewtobacco... For some reason, the pan and scan flag is set for the disk. So if your DVD player happens to be on the P&S auto setting, it'll zoom in on the picture.

Thanks, but that's what supposed to happen if your player is set to pan and scan; it won't come in to play for anyone whose player is set to 16:9. I take it you have a 4:3 TV? Just set your player to 4:3 not 4:3 P&S. A number of commercial anamorphic widescreen discs have this setting.

Really? I've never seen a DVD that implements the 4:3 Pan & Scan option. A "centre of interest" offset is supposed to be encoded in the video stream, otherwise you just end up with the sides cropped and the scanned window stays centered (does not "pan").

It is much more common (and preferable, IMO) to author for only 4:3 letterboxed. Although the setting is pretty obsolete these days when most people have 16:9 TVs.