DVD menus created with DeVeDe look screwey on DVD player

[Rei Shinozuka]

On 05/24/2010 04:36 PM, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> There's been a bit of talk about using DeVeDe recently for making DVD
> movies, so I thought I'd give it a try, as I had a compilation movie I
> needed to make, and DeVeDe seemed to do exactly what I wanted. However,
> there's an issue with playing disks created with DeVeDe on an actual DVD
> player: The menus are all completely unreadable and unusable.
>
> The menus, when running the DVD in an actual player, ripple and tear as
> though using an extremely low refresh rate or something. In addition,
> they're offset so that the middle of the menu is on the left side of the
> screen with a big black bar on the right.
>
> The videos on the DVD play perfectly with no issues, and the menus also
> look just fine when played on my computer (through Totem and VLC) so I
> was wondering if there's some setting I may need to change that I missed
> to get the menus to look right. Also, I used to use QDVDAuthor for doing
> this sort of thing, but it's just too unstable for my taste... however,
> despite it's instability, menus created with that program work perfectly
> on my DVD player.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!
>
>    
Could it be a PAL/NTSC problem?  i don't have a problem at all on either 
of my 2 Sony (NTSC) dvd players, one connected to a Sony flatscreen via 
HDMI, the other a Sony glass tube tv via component analog.  The menus 
look fine on either set.  I can detect a little flickering between the 
edges of the menu selections, but certainly nothing illegible.

-rei