Wide Screen VCD... POSSIBLE?

[correioelet2002]

Hi

I'm having this problem here when converting to VCD from a TRULY wide screen DivX/Xvid/DVD. All of you already know that the TMPGEnc templates for VCD convert to 4:3 and even when preserving the wide screen aspect ratio ends up creating an mpeg with 4:3 signal and two black lines inserted above and below the actual video.

I tried changing the template but could not figure a way to end up with a TRUE wide screen that will be a full screen on wide screen TVs and a regular "almost square" with the black lines to preserve the aspect on 4:3 TVs, as most original movie DVDs are.

Anyway, what I'm trying to create here is an anamorphic wide screen VCD. Anyone knows if that's possible and how to do it?

Thanks!!

[johns0]

Not with mpg1,only mpg2 and 720x480/576 to be dvd compliant.If you did find a way to make it wide screen anamorphic then chances are it wouldnt play with the right aspect ratio as vcd anyways.

[correioelet2002]

Ok, so these settings you gave are for SVCD, right? Would that be an anamorphic?

[jimmalenko]

On first read, I thought VCD could only be 4:3.

http://www.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/manuals/0.7/vcdimager.html#SEC24

The Video CD specification requires the multiplex-ed MPEG-1 stream to have a bit rate of about 174300 bytes per second. The video stream is required to have one of the following resolutions:


352 x 240 @ 29.97 Hz (NTSC).
352 x 240 @ 23.976 Hz (FILM).
352 x 288 @ 25 Hz (PAL) (not supported on VCD 1.x!).
The audio stream must be MPEG-1 layer II, fixed to a 224 kbits/sec CBR with 1 joint stereo, stereo or dual channel audio stream, and a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz at 16 bit resolution.

No limitations regarding aspect ratio according to this

[johns0]

Aspect ratio isnt the problem,its the anamorphic thats questionable.

[correioelet2002]

Exactly, on my regular TV I got the right aspect (with the black lines) but on the wide screen TV I just got a "center square" video... I wanted to have a "full wide" screen...