moving being stretched

[downer]

What would cause a movie to become "stretched" out. I have a XVID movie that is 2 files, it is 608x336, NTSC (film). They look fine if I just view them on my DVD player (I have a divx dvd player), but if i want to create a DVD so I can bring them and watch them elsewhere the video gets "stretched" - meaning in the beginning when it is showing the credits they are not in full view half of them are cut.

I am running version 2.0

Hope this makes sense and someone will be able to help me.

Thanks.

[ChrissyBoy]

Have a look at https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=282396

Are your TV & DVD Player NTSC by default?

[downer]

Yes my tv and dvd player are ntsc by default. I don't think I have had problems in the past playing PAL movies though? Just seems to be this one.

I can maybe try another and see what happens. Any other suggestions?

[ChrissyBoy]

what about when you play the dvd on the PC?

[downer]

I will have to check when I get home. What are the drawbacks (besides taking longer) is the convert PAL -> NTSC option? Is the degradation in quality that noticeable?

Thanks.

[ChrissyBoy]

You said your sources were NTSC->Film, therefore PAL to NTSC is not relevent here.

[downer]

Yes you are right, I was confused because it has the same aspect ratio of another file I had that is PAL (608x336).

[ChrissyBoy]

Well it will still be interesting to see how it plays on the PC... Can you view it on other players too to see if we can isolate the problem?

[downer]

I will try that tonight and let you know.

Thanks for the help. I think this happened to me before and I just used a converter like Procoder to do it because all of the divx -> dvd converters did the same thing.

Let's hope we can figure it out.