How to unpack DVD movie to edit it's video/sound?

[Don Levey]

fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote:
> Don Levey writes:
>
>> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 21:35 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>> Don Levey writes:
>>>
>>
>> I took a look at that, but haven't found anything to explain the
>> behaviour.  Playing a commercial wide-screen DVD renders properly 1t
>> 16:9.  It's only my self-mastered CDs which play full-screen, even
>>  if only on this player. -Don
>
> There's a big difference between commercially stamped DVDs and burned
> DVDs. It may very well be a software issue in your DVD player.  It's
> entirely possible that there's nothing technically wrong with your
> burned DVDs, it's just that your player for some reason crops all
> burned DVD video to 4:3.

I was afraid of that.  I'll take the burned disk to another player (a
friend's, or perhaps at a store) to see if this is a common problem or if a
player update is in order...

Thanks!
 -Don