Super VCD with TMPGEnc problems...

[DeeGee88]

I use SmartRipper, DVD2AVI and TMPGEnc and have had success creating VCDs for over 12 months.
I recently decided to 'upgrade'?? to SVCDs and now am having heaps of dramas.
When TMPGEnc is finished its job (even having used 'the wizard') I end up with video that is 3 foot wide and 20 foot tall - it's cool, I've ALWAYS exaggerated....LOL
What settings am I stuffing up? I can't work it out, I've spent a week scratching my head - woke the lice up......LOL
Even VCDCutter won't recognize the mpeg!!
Anyone have any ideas?
BTW - System is PAL.

[yoda313]

Hello,
It sounds like your having resizing issues. Try selecting Keep Aspect Ratio (if its 4:3 or 16:9 use that mode). This should help resolve your problem.
Kevin

[jyn999]

I use DVD2SVCD with the D2SRoBa front-end. I never created PAL SVCDs but there are no problems with NTSC SVCDs.
Look for it under Tools

[adam]

How are you playing this clip? SVCDs are encoded at a resolution very far from a proper 4:3 aspect ratio. There are flags in the stream which the dvd player is supposed to use to stretch the image to its proper viewing aspect ratio. If you view your mpg in something like windows media player, it often won't parse the flags and the image is displayed as is instead of being stretched horizontally. The result is an image which appears tall and skinny.

If you want to view the mpg use a software DVD player with SVCD support like PowerDVD or WinDVD. A good free SVCD player is SthDVD. Or you can go ahead and burn that mpg to a SVCD and play it on a SVCD compatible DVD player. Chances are it will look fine, and much better than any VCD.

VCDCutter doesn't recognize the mpg because it only supports VCDs, not SVCDs.

[DeeGee88]

Hi CJ,
it played like crap in Win media (everyone was 100ft tall...LOL), but worked fine in PowerDVD.
If VCDCutter doesn't recognize it, what does?
Other than that, thanks for your help - you and all the other respondents.

Regards,
Den

[adam]

VCDCutter only supports mpeg1, which VCD uses. If you want to edit your SVCD compliant mpgegs you need any mpeg2 editor. You can find plenty in the tools section of this site. TMPGEnc can do basic editing using its mpeg tools function, or you can use something like Womble's mpeg2vcr or M2 Edit.

Editing any form of mpeg is difficult to do effectively. If possible do all of your editing before encoding to mpeg.

[DeeGee88]

Still having dramas - we are still "too tall" even played with Power DVD (although not much) enough to know it's not right.
Movie is 16:9 interactive PAL.
Any ideas what settings I'm stuffing up in TMPGEnc?

Thanx
Den

[adam]

Not sure. 16:9 isn't supported in the SVCD standard, but it should work ok on software players I'd think. If you plan on playing this back on a hardware player you're going to have to go with 4:3 anyway, so you might as well give it a try like that.

[yoda313]

Hello,
Do you have "keep aspect ratio" selected in powerdvd?? Just a thought.
Kevin