Is it just me, or does it make little sense why that resolution was chosen.

VCD's makes sense, it's closer to what more movies/TV are the shape of.

What the hell video is perfectly Square shaped anyway (besides maybe some camcorders?

AND:

When I encode a Widescreen movie in TMPEnc, I cannot get it to fully maintain the normal video size with no distortion (IE I can still see everything from the widescreen.)

I either have to let it cut off a little of each side (CENTER setting) or have everything compressed a bit (Center or Fullscreen- KEep aspect ratio).

This is normal, though, eh?


Oh and my DVD player doesn't like XVCD's so I stay away from those