avidemux wrong video size

[dimoutlook]

New to avidemux, when I load a vob file the video is to narrow and the hight is too high, please see screen shot, the vob is coming off of my Toshiba d-r 410 dvd recorder. All the disks play fine in three different dvd players what I would like to do is go completely freeware in authoring a dvd. but need to start with basic editing in avidemux first.

All replies are most welcome

[guns1inger]

Wild guess - your recorder is recording in half-D1 resolution, and AVIDemux isn't picking this up when you load the files. This is really only a display issue, and should not affect any editing you do. If you want to you can add a resize filer to get the image back to full-D1 (720 x 480 - NTSC or 720 x 576 - PAL) if you want to.

Why has it recorded at half-D1 ? usually this is because you have tried to recorder in a long play type mode to squeeze a lot of footage onto the disc, and this is how the recorder tries to handle the lower bitrates.

[dimoutlook]

Yes its is recorded in the SP mode for 4 hrs on one disk, some movies on hbo are over 2 1/2 hrs long that's why I guess its recording in half size mode, will try the edit and see if it works thanks for the info on using filters to bring it back to full d1

[dimoutlook]

It edited without any problems, avidemux is fantastic for a freeware program now on to dvd styler to make a trial movie.
Thanks again for your help