Moshe Katz's answer is right that you'll have to re-encode the video with it rotated. But actually you already are: your phone probably records H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC). DVD Video requires MPEG-2 — those are two different codecs, thus you have to re-encode.
So, if you can find a DVD creation program that understands orientation metadata (or can be told to rotate the video) you don't have to add another re-encode.
That said, there will probably be loss of quality for two reasons:
- Chroma subsampling
- Wrong resolution
Chroma subsampling. First off, video uses a bunch of tricks to get what is really a high data rate — almost 3 gigabits/second for 1080p@60 — down to a manageable data rate. One of those tricks takes advantage of the human eye being less sensitive to color differences than brightness differences by discarding a lot of the color information. One common method, called 4:2:0 subsampling, takes every 4×2 block of pixels and discards the color information from half of the pixels on the top row and all of the pixels on the bottom row. Why? Well, color is ⅔ of the data — so going from 8 color pixels down to 2 halves the data rate. This does pose a problem with rotating it, though, at least if its been scaled at all. If it hasn't been scaled, it'll hopefully line up (but it will be scaled, see #2) (DVD Video forces you to use 4:2:0, so this is unavoidable).
Wikipedia has a nice graphic in their chroma subsampling article which shows the different methods and what they do to a block, it's about ¼ down the page. Note that Y is the brightness and Cr and Cb are the color.
Wrong resolution. DVD Video requires video to be in several very specific resolutions, the largest on being 720×480 (at least for NTSC; on PAL DVDs its 720×576). If your video doesn't have that resolution then it must be scaled and letterboxed (black border added). So, for example, if your video is 720 pixels tall instead of wide, then it'll be scaled down to be 480 pixels tall, then black borders added left and right to make it a DVD resolution again (probably 704×480, the next one down.)
[There is actually a lot more complexity here; for example, if you try to compute the aspect ratio of 720×480 you'll notice that it's 3:2, which is weird — it's neither 4:3 nor 16:9. That's because DVD pixels aren't square—that same resolution produces both 4:3 and 16:9, depending on a flag on the DVD). Also, part of the 720×480 frame is supposed to be ignored/unused, because analog TV. That is often ignored, but not always.]
Did you made a DVD-Video or just a DVD-ROM with the files inside? – None – 2018-08-29T23:06:35.447
Pretty sure I made a DVD ROM with the files inside. – Duncman008 – 2018-08-30T00:27:58.483
1To make a dvd video the files need to be something other than mp4. – Duncman008 – 2018-08-30T00:28:40.040
1Then the problem is at the DVD player. The support for different video file formats is a non-standard feature (as in extra) of some players and depends on the device's firmware. So, probably, there's nothing you can do about it. – None – 2018-08-30T00:43:11.113
And it makes this question off-topic in this website. – None – 2018-08-30T00:43:38.897
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If you want to send them online (even though they are so large), you might consider WeTransfer.com. I use them all the time for sending large files like videos, and they are really good at what they do. Plus they are free and they have a great privacy policy. (I am not affiliated with WeTransfer, just a happy user.)
– Moshe Katz – 2018-08-30T01:55:38.070Let us continue this discussion in chat.
– fixer1234 – 2018-08-30T07:56:01.300They are very large files and can not be emailed.
- can you just send them over the bittorrent network? bittorrent have no practical size limit, features concurrent multiple-connection transfers, transfer resume, checksum verification, and more (like, among other things, having all clients transfer between each others so you don't have to upload to each recipient individually) – hanshenrik – 2018-08-30T12:29:51.0231All the suggestions about how to send the files are great but if the files are expected to play in the same or similar DVD player then the problem will be the same. I'm afraid many people are focusing too much on the package (irrelevant) and not in its contents. How the files end up in the DVD player doesn't matter. – None – 2018-08-30T17:13:03.123
@GabrielaGarcia I think that's because with the information given, the package aspect is important here. He talks about getting the files to the people he recorded them for; and his only reason given for not emailing was the file size. This highly suggests that they do not need it in DVD format; but just need the data transferred to their possession. Suggesting transfer alternatives seems very valid here IMO. – JMac – 2018-08-30T17:22:37.647
@JMac I agree with you. But asking about products/services would also be off-topic. Commenting about such alternatives seems fine to me regardless. – None – 2018-08-30T17:25:58.510
@GabrielaGarcia That's my point; I only see it in comments so it looks fine. The interesting part of the question is definitely still related to how it plays in DVD format. Sometimes a solution can sidestep the question completely though; since the question isn't directly related to the actual problem. – JMac – 2018-08-30T17:28:30.677