DVD conversion question..

[TheDJ®]

I have a divx movie...resolution is 640x336 PAL Widescreen. Now when converting with tmpgenc, which resolution would u recommend? Would 720x576 be ok? or will that stretch the pic too much?

thx

/TheDJ®

[Vejita-sama]

The video image will be resized. However, you can not create something from nothing. Think of it this way. You have a 80x60 JPG file, that you enlarge to 1024x768 to make a background. Looks like crap right

Not because the image is stretched out, the aspect ratio is perserved but the quaility is poor. As a general rule you should re-size to the closes DVD supported resolution (are you even making a DVD or this is a VCD/CVD/SVCD):

720x576
704x576
352x576
352x288

You say your source is 640x336 widescreen? While actually there are no widescreen PC video (do a forum search for DAR). So I'd go with 352x576 (it's a good bet that the 336 vs. 576 is letterboxed/black space so you should be ok).

Here's what you do:

1. Run TMPGenc
2. Load source video
3. Click on settings, then the advance tab
4. Set source aspect ratio: '1:1 VGA'. Set video arrange method: 'full screen (keep aspect ratio). This will resize your source video so that it uses the full horizontal resolution and then letterboxs the vertical as necessary to preserve the source aspect ratio
5. Encode

[TheDJ®]

Hi Vejita-sama, thanks for replying!

I'm actually doing a divx 2 dvd, and used 720x576 res PAL...i always select source aspect: 1:1 VGA & "Full Screen (keep aspect ratio)".

When encoding finished, picture quality looked very good, i also just watched it all the way through and looks impressive. One thing though, the end credits were leaking white colours, but would then dissappear and return, other than that all was fine.

I always try to use a resolution which is close to the source or lower to get the best quality, but this one seemed ok!

I will try the K-DVD template next, see how that compares

thx

/TheDJ®