If you don’t pay special attention to some DVD items - and crop/set appropriately they’ll do exactly that.
There’s no telling what you’ve got going on over there, or what’s happening in your file without a MediaInfo report - like this one:
General
Unique ID : 94550907992417277916863817798025298311 (0x4721D7ADE4D4AF21E0854F05BFE54187)
Complete name : I:\1950s\The Rose Tattoo (1955) [480p x264]\The Rose Tattoo (1955) [480p x264].mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 1.10 GiB
Duration : 1 h 56 min
Overall bit rate : 1 345 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2020-05-14 17:49:23
Writing application : Lavf58.42.100
Writing library : Lavf58.42.100
ErrorDetectionType : Per level 1
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3
Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1 h 56 min
Bit rate : 1 150 kb/s
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Stream size : 941 MiB (84%)
Writing library : x264 core 157 r2935 545de2f
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1150 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics : BT.601
Matrix coefficients : Identity
matrix_coefficients_Original : BT.601
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1 h 56 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 160 MiB (14%)
Title : Stereo
Writing library : Lavc58.77.101 ac3_fixed
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 56 min
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Menu
00:00:00.000 : :Chapter 1
00:06:46.406 : :Chapter 2
00:11:59.719 : :Chapter 3
00:16:27.320 : :Chapter 4
00:20:52.251 : :Chapter 5
00:26:58.951 : :Chapter 6
00:35:13.445 : :Chapter 7
00:43:40.618 : :Chapter 8
00:50:41.372 : :Chapter 9
00:55:57.688 : :Chapter 10
01:00:00.588 : :Chapter 11
01:09:40.501 : :Chapter 12
01:13:53.754 : :Chapter 13
01:20:49.503 : :Chapter 14
01:27:59.265 : :Chapter 15
01:36:09.755 : :Chapter 16
01:40:49.368 : :Chapter 17
01:46:41.386 : :Chapter 18
But that recent acquisition plays/displays normally - important as I’ve been trying to get that Movie for at least 40 years. It’s quality is horrendous, but it displays properly…lol
I used these settings for Handbrake (DVD Section 2) - it was basically drag and drop:
