Very Strange Problem with Copying in Wide Screen Mode

I've had this problem before, but I thought it was just that I must have made the mistake of putting the disc in my drive wrong side up. However this time, I tried both sides and each one encoded my movie in full screen mode. I don't get it!! I put the disc in my drive, and it plays in widescreen. I encode it in DVD Shrink and it results in full screen. I try flipping the disc over to the other side, and same thing!

Anyone know what's going on here? And more importantly, how to correct this? I want widescreen movies when all possible!

To further experiment, I tried ripping and burning with DVD Decrypter and same problem. However, when I play the movie in my computer, it displays wide screen. It's just when I try playing on either my Toshiba or Sony dvd player that I get full screen. What the heck is going on here? All my other movies that are JUST widescreen, play fine. It seems to be only with movies that have widescreen on one side and full screen on the other. But again, I've tried ripping and burning both sides of these discs, and they still only play full screen. What gives?

Is the Video stretched unproportionaly on your stand alone, i.e. does it look like the player is stretching the widescreen to fit full screen?
Or does everything look good, but your just watching the Full Screen version?

I have copied dual sided discs that had wide on one side, full on the other and never had a problem.

I'm not really sure - it just looks like a regular full screen mode. However, since my computer plays it in widescreen mode, what it appears to me is that somehow my dvd players (Toshiba and Sony) have both forced it into full screen. Very strange and not sure if that's even possible.

The only way to get full screen from a widescreen and have the correct proportions is to have your DVD player cut off the right and left edges. This might be possible if it's in zoom mode, but probably not likely.
Sure you didn't accidently burn the Full screen folder to the disc and not widscreen?
What is the movie and maybe someone had a similar issue.
Never seen anything like this before.

Try deleting all instances of this movie from your hard drive and start over.
Guess I can't help much.

Nah, I know for CERTAIN that I copied the right side of the disc because I tried them both, and I got full screen! As for trying again, I did that 4 times and finally gave up (and yes, I erased all instances of files before doing so). What's even more interesting is that my computer plays the movie in widescreen just fine, but both my Toshiba and Sony dvd players don't. Even more, this isn't just with one movie. This has happened on a few occasions. Most recently it was with Big Daddy. This is frustrating because I have absolutely no idea what to do!! For some reason this ONLY happens when I have a movie which is two sided (one side full screen and the other side wide screen). And like I stated earlier, I've even tried copying both sides of the disc and I still get full screen mode.

Awwwwww!!

If you still have the VOB files on the computer, you can use ifoedit to check the result DVD to be full screen or widescreen.

In order to find out if the DVD is full screen or widescreen, load the file VTS_TS.ifo (or VTS_XX_0.ifo) in the program ifoedit and check if it is said 16:9 letterbox. Please note that there are many possible combinations of widescreen (16:9) and letterbox options. One way is comparing back to the original DVD.

You could change this value to experiment how to display 16:9 on your stand alone DVD player. The problem is the DVD software on the computer is much more flexible and powerful than the stand alone DVD player.

So far, I have not found any guides about dealing with wide screen DVD on both the stand alond player and the DVD software on the computer. I started to notice this problem when I had access to a widescreen TV.

Good luck.