How do I adjust a VCD image to widescreen?

[broth]

Hi,

I have a problem: My vcd image is widescreen but got encoded 4:3 which lead to loooong heads and uneven tires ^^

How do I change to widescreen (I have TMPGenc etc.)?

Thanks for the help°!!!!

[mats.hogberg]

VCD is 4:3.
If you have a 16:9 TV, set it to wide/full. If not, resize, letterbox and reencode.

/Mats

[broth]

sorry if you got me wrong: it is bad (long heads etc.) when watching it on PC

[DVWannaB]

Hi,

I have a problem: My vcd image is widescreen but got encoded 4:3 which lead to loooong heads and uneven tires ^^

How do I change to widescreen (I have TMPGenc etc.)?

Thanks for the help°!!!!

Hmmmmmm.............try clicking on the Aspect Ratio and change to 16:9

[broth]

i cant, its an image (cue bin)

[mats.hogberg]

sorry if you got me wrong: it is bad (long heads etc.) when watching it on PC

No, I didn't get you wrong. Like I said, if you have a 16:9 TV, switch to 16:9 mode. Or try a PC VCD player that can be resized independently horisontally/vertically. Else, you have to extract the mpg, resize, letterbox and reencode. Losing quality.

/Mats

[broth]

mmhm can you name a program that supports 16:9 for vcds?? doesnt wmp? its that bad format with wmp....

[Cornucopia]

Widescreen support of MPEG1 is VERY player-dependent. Most DON'T support it. I just tried WMP6.4 (no), MPClassic(yes), WMP9/10(yes), RoxioVCDPlayer(no).

Here's what you do...

1. Mount your CUE/BIN. You can use DaemonTools.
2. Use VCDEasy's Rip tool. You'll get the plain Mpeg1 in a folder on your HD.
3. Demux a copy of the mpg stream to video(mpv/m1v) and audio(mpa/m2a/mp2) streams. You can use TMPEGEnc.
4. Open the video stream in MPEGSequenceMaker (see Tools). Use "all files" filetype filter to see an m1v.
5. Click-[Options]. The only user-adjustable dropdown will be aspect ratio. It should be at standard NTSC. Change it to Widescreen NTSC.
6. Name an output file as in "myfile_16x9.m1v" and click [Save]. It will re-write the headers without recompressing--usually quite fast.
7. Remux the new video stream with the old audio stream. TMPEGEnc again. You'll end up with "myfile_16x9.mpg".
8. Copy that file to where the original file resided and rename it to be EXACTLY like the original.
9. Use VCDEasy/VCDImager to create a new CUE/BIN from the original XML, and burn.
10. Enjoy!

HTH,
Scott

***edit***
If that doesn't do what you want, you'll have to follow mats.hogberg's fine advice.

[broth]

wow awesome help. i will work on that tomorrow...that does NOT afffect the quality of the movie does it?

to 3: what version do I use to demux? how do i do that....sry noob
to 5: how do i know its ntsc?

[Cornucopia]

No. Happily, it won't affect the quality at all (barring resizing problems in your player).

re: #3...Any and Every version of TMPGEnc can freely mux and demux MPEG1 and MPEG2, incl. old and/or free versions.

re: #5...coming from US, I'm assuming NTSC. If your in PAL land, replace everything I just said with PAL-appropriate settings (including the Widescreen dropdown choice).
Obviously, to make sure, look at the video 1st in a player and check properties of it. If it's 352x240(sometimes mislabeled 320x240) at 29.97fps, it's NTSC. If it's 352x288 (or "320x288) at 25fps, it's PAL.

Have fun and let us know how it went. You can always use a CD-RW for testing purposes...

Scott

[broth]

cool i will try out. how long do you think the total thing will take???

i have all the soft i need!"