svcd resolution

[magnus]

When using the normal svcd resolution(480,480), the images seem to be stretched vertically when I view them. Is there any setting I can change before encoding or do I have to just change the resolution. If changing the resolution is necessary how will it affect my file size and player compatibility?

[Sefy]

Only on the PC it will look stretched, on the TV it will look as it should, of course it might also be because your source was Wide Screen and you didn't include the black bars, so the movie because stretched.

[kinneera]

Also, be sure the display aspect ratio of the MPEG is set to 4:3.

[g0dZpr0fi7]

Its not realy streched verticaly its 480x480, its square.
Use a player that will display it at the correct aspect ratio, I like PowerDVD.

[Sefy]

The problem with PC playback, that it plays by resolution, so 480x480 is square, but if you watch it on a TV, you'll notice it will look just like 352x240 and 720x480, the quality will increase, but it will have the same looking size.

[Redhawk]

I've had a problem with the same thing. I encoded an avi to vbr svcd and when I played it on my dvd player (Pioneer dv-440) the picture was squeezed down, as if the player was trying to force it into letterbox shape. When I changed the settings of the player to play on a 16:9 tv, it then displayed the video in the normal 4:3 format. I can live with that but it's kind of annoying to have to keep switching the modes between watching dvds and svcds.
I encoded the file with TMPGEnc with the source set to 1:1 (encoded same file to vcd and no problem) and the output set to 480x480 and 4:3 (NOT 16:9). Anyone got any ideas?

[kinneera]

Yeah, set the source aspect ratio to 4:3. The key to remember with TMPGEnc is to always set the aspect ratio to what it's supposed to be, not necessarily what the resolution would indicate. For example, if you captured a 4:3 source at 480x480, your source aspect ratio should be 4:3. If your source is a computer generated graphic at 480x480 that doesn't look distorted, however, then you would set the source aspect ratio to 1:1.