Movie is narrower on tv than on PC, help needed.

[MaX_NormaL]

I am using CCE to encode and the screen (movie) is a bit (say half an inch in real terms) narrower and shorter on my tv than on my pc. I have viewed the vobs, the avs and the mpeg I burned on my pc and they all look exactly the same nothing apparently missing but when I watch the SVCD I made there is definitely a shortfall in screen size (viewable).

The source (DVD) is 16:9 but I used this script :

loadplugin("c:\dvd\mpeg2dec.dll")
v=mpeg2source("C:\TEMP\RING\RING.d2v")
a=wavsource("C:\TEMP\RING\RING.wav")
audiodub(v,a)
bicubicresize(480,576)

I encode in CCE as DAR 16:9 aswell.

Now I know it should be (480,432) but I don't like borders and this way I use has not produced this prob before as I have checked.

So I am unsure whether it is due to my Avisynth script or something particular about this dvd?

Is there an alternative way to rid myself of the borders while keeping all the detail of the original source? Or am I stuck with one or the other? This source is doing my head in as I have had another prob with it in Advance forum (sorted now, sort of, Thanks Adam!)

TIA for any help

[adam]

Well this may just be a result of the overscanning that all tv's do. Everything that gets played on a television has around 12-16 pixels cropped off on all sides. Basically the actual picture overlapps the edges of your tv screen, so the viewable picture is less. Its really not that big of a deal, all commercial footage should take this into account during filming and production. If you watch a dvd movie on your pc and then play it on the tv you will see the same effect. Details on the outer edges are lost but you were never meant to see them anyway. If you want to squeeze a little more quality into your encodes you can take overscanning into account when encoding, though the viewable picture doesn't become any larger. Read here for details, http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=111724

As long as the aspect ratio is the same and the picture otherwise looks normal, albeit smaller, than I think its safe to say this is just a function of overscanning. If the aspect ratio looks incorrect than it may be because you are encoding in 16:9. The 16:9 flag in a svcd is not supported in many, if not most, dvd players. You may want to consider always encoding in 4:3 regardless of the aspect ratio of your source.

[MaX_NormaL]

Thanks for the info, very informative

I will try encoding in 4:3 on a few different aspect sources and compare the results.

I suppose if I can make it without borders then a little missing is no biggy.

Thanks for the help!!