Wrong video size playback

[LoopyWolf]

I have a JVC big screen television in my entertainment center and it cuts off the bottom and top of whatever I burn to VCD.

This is a real pain when it comes to anime or subtitles, because they are not readable. Up to now, I've been re-authoring the files to have a letterbox big enough to be watchable on the TV but it's a LOT of hours extra

Does anybody know a way that I could adjust the video size of the television? It seems to play back ok on other people's DVD setups.

The manual, remote and on-screen menus say nothing about video size, but a lot of TVs do.

[wulf109]

VCD and SVCD do not support letterboxing. They will display "full screen" and distort the aspect ratio. If your source is letterboxed it must be "corrected" when you encode.
DVD players have menus that adjust display ratio.

[LoopyWolf]

No, it's not letterboxing..

When I encode this video normally, without any special editing, the bottom of the screen is cut off on my JVC television, so nobody can see the subtitles and the video is useless.

In order to view them on my JVC television, I have to do into VirtualDub, shrink the picture size down within the normal frame, creating a "letterbox" around it, which makes it viewable on my television.

On other people's televisions, the ordinary video is viewable, and shows the "box" around the edited versions. What I need is to adjust my DVD player/JVC television so that the video size matches the screen and things are not cut off. However, I can't find any control to do that. That's my problem.