setting 16:9 flag with pulldown.exe - does it work?

[bacardi/avt]

I found that the newest version of pulldown.exe let you set the aspectratio flag of the videostream. I tried it thinking i would end up with at stream that adds the black bar by it self on 4:3 screen, but NO. What does this flag really do?

by the way I did a small rip of privateryan eith smartripper
then made a DVD2AVI project
which I loaded into TMPGEnc where I set the source and destination to 16:9 and the size to 480x576
then I made a VFAPI of it and loaded it into CCE 2.5
after encoding it I ran pulldown.exe with the flag set to:
-nopulldown -framerate 25 -aspect_ratio 16:9
Ithe muxed this using BBMPEG ending up with a SVCD stream that is shown in 16:9 format on the computer but 4:3 un my standalone (Pioneer DV-343).

What is it I am doing wrong, the only thing I want is for the finished SVCD to adjust to the aspectratio of the TV when played on a standalone.

Can anybody help me?

[kriskim]

in theory, this should work, as the svcd specs allow for a 16:9 aspect ratio, however, there are virtually no standalone dvd players that support playback of a 16:9 svcd. if you have a widescreen tv, you can use the stretch feature of the tv to manually stretch the picture to the whole tv (independent of the dvd player), but if you have a regular 4:3 tv, there is no benefit at all to trying to make it anamorphic widescreen, and you should instead keep it at 4:3 letterbox.