16:9 Format (TMPGenc/DVD2AVI)

[Pitfall]

I have a true 16:9 movie, that is that the movie plays full screen in wide screen mode on the TV, and when the movie is played with WinDVD4 it displays it in 16:9. No Letter boxing on PC nor TV.
Now when i load the VOBs in DVD2AVI the display is very tall, i save the project and load the two files in to TMPGenc now what ever options i set in TMPGenc i still get the letter box effect. Is there a way to get the movie back to its original aspect ratio.

[snowmoon]

First you may need to load the unlock template if any of these options are unavalible to you.

Under settings...

Your output ratio should be 16:9 not 4:3, under advanced set the input ratio as 16:9. If necessart set image placements as fill screen. These setiing in combo will make a MPEG that is 16:9 enhanced, but remember that many poeple will NOT be able to play these back since many DVD players WILL NOT letterbox VCD or SVCD.

Cheers

[Pitfall]

Ok, i've loaded the Unlock.mcf settings (what does that do?) and changed the input and outputs to 16:9 what do the newly activated options give me in the way of preserving the 16:9 enhanced aspect ratio. Oh and the end product will go on a Dvdr...

Thanks for the help!

[poopyhead]

word of caution, if the dvd has both a widescreen and fullscreen version, make sure you rip the widescren version...

once you have the widescreen version, dvd2avi's info box should tell u that the apsect ratio is 16:9 (if it's 4:3, then it's most likely fullscreen and u ripped the wrong version....however, there are some nonanamorphic widescreens that are 4:3)

in tmpgenc's options, set video output to 4:3 display NTSC. for source, set source apsect ratio as 16:9 525 line NTSC (assuming dvd2avi said it was 16:9). image positioning mehtod should either be fit to frame (preserve aspect ratio) or full screen (preserve aspect ratio) depending on which version of tmpgenc u have

o..i assumed you have NTSC dvd, if you have PAL..then everything should be in PAL