Previewing video captured at 352x480

[cdig04]

I captured some vhs video using my ati AIW 9600 at 352x480 recently. When cataloging/previewing my captured mpeg files I like to use realplayer because I like the interface over some other players. It shows the length of video file, current position, and the slider is easy to move back and forth. Using Realplayer worked really well when I was using my video from my DV camcorder.

The problem I have is the video is shunk horizontally(skinnier) when playing with realplayer. This also happens with windows media player. It is fine when I use the ati file player and Nero Showtime. I am assuming it is because of the 352x480 resolution. I am going to capture at 720x480 and see if this fixes the problem but haven't yet. I am using 352x480 to save some disk space because the source is only vhs.

Any comments/insight would be appreciated.
Greg

[hexxisoft]

use Media Player Classic, and using the keypad on the right, resize the video in the player (sometimes it does this automatically)

[reboot]

352x480 will be the same size file as 720x480. Aspect ratio has (almost) nothing to do with filesize.

[bugster]

Aspect ratio has (almost) nothing to do with filesize.

Aspect ratio has absolutley nothing to do with filesize.

Bitrate and running time are all that matter.

Higher resolution will require higher bitrate to maintain the same quality tho.

[cdig04]

Thanks for the replies.

When I change the capture resolutions the bitrate changes automatically. The higher resolutions increase the bitrate.

I will give Media Player Classic a try.

So what causes some players to incorrectly size the video?

I did check the file and it had the aspect ratio hard coded to 4:3.

[bugster]

So what causes some players to incorrectly size the video?

I did check the file and it had the aspect ratio hard coded to 4:3.

Some (Many) players ignore the AR setting in an mpeg and display it at a pixel aspect ratio of 1:1 (which is the norm for avi's).