SVCD Aspect ratio

[XaTrIx]

I have a SVCD movie, that i want to play on my widescreen TV. The SVCD is 4:3 with built in letterboxes. When i choose "Wide" on the TV, the people look squeezed. How can i fix the SVCD movie to display over the whole tv. I dont want to use the Zoom function.

[johns0]

Not sure how you watch your vcr tapes which are at 4:3 but that will be the same setting.

[XaTrIx]

What does VCR have to do with this. I want my SVCD movies so that they are fullscreen. There are black bars over and under the image.

[johns0]

The reason i said vcr settings was that they are 4:3 and so is your svcd and you have to watch it that way,no getting around it.

[c_hernandez32]

You might have to use ZOOM, but I think you will have to reencode the SVCD so it is completely widescreen, and not a 4:3 with widescreen content. It will then play back as a letterboxed movie in a 4:3 TV (via the DVD player) and a true 16:9 movie on a widescreen TV.

Maybe check your DVD player so it is setup to play on a 16:9 TV.

[XaTrIx]

What program can I use to reencode the movie? I want somekind of batch job because I have several movies.

[Baldrick]

reencoding them will make the video quality worse...and you must also resize up them so it will look even worser....use the zoooooooooooooom.

[XaTrIx]

Why are there tiny black bars on original dvds?

[akbor75]

there are almost always black bars on dvds cos the aspect ration is almost never 16:9 (1.78:1), but more like 1.85:1 or even more than 2:1.
you can crop that to 16:9 but ofcourse you will loose part of the picture.
(i wouldn't do so, but that's my opinion.)