Burned Blu-Ray plays back in incorrect aspect ratio only outside of computer/PowerDVD

[Adler000]

I've created a BD Disc using BDStudioLite and I am attempting to burn it to a 25GB BD-R with Imgburn.

I am able to successfully burn a disc, both from the BDMV/CERTIFICATE folders and from an ISO created from those folders (I've done both as tests). In both methods, the disc burns successfully, verifies, and plays back perfectly in 16:9 on PowerDVD on my computer as it should. However, when attempting to play it on my TV on both a Sony 4K Blu-Ray player and on an Xbox One S, the disc plays back in 4:3 and the image is horizontally squashed. I have triple checked the device and TV settings and there is not an issue there. I have also checked the streams in MediaInfo and they display as 16:9, so I don't know where or why this issue is arising. Other BD discs play perfectly on my Sony player and Xbox.

I'm very intrigued as to why this would be the case, especially since the finished disc plays back perfectly on PowerDVD.

 

For reference if needed:

BD Discs: 25GB BD-R Verbatim (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003EE08S8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

Authoring Software: BDStudioLite

Burning Software: Imgburn

Drive: Alphami External Blu-Ray Drive (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DJNHYLVL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

[dbminter]

Sounds like a player issue.  Particularly since it works on your PC in PowerDVD.  Or something that BDStudioLite is doing.  ImgBurn burning the contents would have no bearing on the aspect ratio of the playback.

[Adler000]

Update:

Issue was caused by the videos being MPEG-2. Once re-encoded to MPEG-4 AVC, it worked like a charm.

Also a note if it helps anybody: I would advise against using PCM/WAV for your audio on Blu-Disc Studio Lite or it causes an awful popping/clicking sound when the stream goes to loop. Use AC-3 and it should work great; it did in my case.

[dbminter]

So, it was something in BDStudioLite.