full screen with vcd????

[john-306]

Hopefully someone will be able to answer this question what I've been pulling my hair out with all day....

I've got a few vcd discs borrowed off a mate which all give different viewing ratios on my new dvd player, all give same general info as mpg 1 352x240 etc etc.
On my PC and DVD player I cannot get full screen viewing off the discs.
I can get full screen viewing by running "simple multiplex" in TMPGEnc, the option to "pan and scan" now appears in "Power dvd " which allows full screen viewing, options which were not available to me before "simple multiplex".
I then burnt a cd-r from this to play in my DVD player, but still couldn't get the full screen version on 4/3 TV.
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
Thanks in advance.
John

[ya_jai]

You are not going anywhere wrong . I think becuz all those cds you borrowed are not encoded in full screen mode. For example if you encode from wide screen movie you will get wide screen or letter box unless you crop the size to be full screen. The 4:3 res 352x240, doesn't mean it is in full screen, it means encoded to play in standard TV type (not wide screen one) at standard resolution (352x240 is standard resolution for NTSC VCD).

If you really want full screen, you have to encoded again in TMPGenc or others and this time you can crop the size to be full screen. But you will have to pay with time and and get less quality from doing so.