XviD 2 SVCD conersion using TMPGEnc - aspect ratios

[DRP]

I have an NTSC 23.976fps XviD AVI at 512x384 (4:3) pixels and I want to encode it to SVCD using TMPGEnc.

Can someone please tell me what settings under "Input aspect ratio" and Output aspect ratio I need to put in to make this display at the same 4:3 aspect ratio on a 4:3 TV?

I have encoded this thing 5 times already (@ hours duration each time) trying different settings and still haven't got it to display right and I'm getting really frustrated now.

I'm thinking it should be: Input - NTSC 525 lines 4:3, Output - Full screen (keep aspect ratio), but I'm sure I've tried this already and it didn't work.

Please help before I smash my computer

DRP

[secretagent]

believe me I am only trying to help. I do not know exactly what you are asking but it seems to me that you don't change anything about the input, that is determined by the source file itself. that said once you laod into tmpgenc you can check clip frame in advanced setting and there is a button to let you preview what the output would look like rather than the source. then you can change whatever you like and see what it looks like before you encode. sorry i can not be of more help

[DRP]

believe me I am only trying to help. I do not know exactly what you are asking but it seems to me that you don't change anything about the input, that is determined by the source file itself. that said once you laod into tmpgenc you can check clip frame in advanced setting and there is a button to let you preview what the output would look like rather than the source. then you can change whatever you like and see what it looks like before you encode. sorry i can not be of more help

Thank you very much! Believe it or not, but this did help me and I have sorted it now. I thought I was about 99.99% of the way there, I just needed someone to suggest something a slightly different way to make me think outside of what I had been doing.

Cheers,

DRP