Ratio should be right but edges get chopped off?

[dinojazz]

Hi, as you guessed I got a problem here.

I've converted an AVI movie finely to MPG. The resolution was 352x288, which would be a legal resolution for VCD/DVD (and is a VHS standard).

When I put it in my player and plays the movie off the VCD (burned it to VCD), the movie does show up correctly and such, nice colors.. except for one thing:

It seems that part of the top and the bottom are chopped off, that also counts for the sides actually. It does look like as if all the sides are like a few centimeters short on the screen.

I am barely able to watch the subtitles inside the movie (the subtitle is permanently on the AVI file before and showed up fine in media player play).

I have used TMPGEnc to convert it from AVI to MPG, output as PAL (as I am in Europe), aspect ratio VGA 1:1. Actually, everything looks like except that the edges get chopped off. Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this? Those subtitles are important for me.

I have converted some other AVI to MPG succesfully before, and those did show up fine. This is the first time that the whole movie gets all edges chopped off a bit. Help is appreciated.

DeeJ

[El Torro]

the problem is the 1:1. 1:1 is an aspect ratio for watching movies on your computer

you're gonna have to convert the avi again with 4:3(PAL 704*567(or sumtin like that)

4:3 should be just fine

[dinojazz]

That is what I thought and made a test VCD with the one in 4:3 (just 4:3, no PAL or NTSC or so additionals).
Tested it, seemed to still have the same problem.

I'll try 4:3 PAL soon, I'm running out of cdroms this way! Hehehe.

[legionpc]

I've had this problem before. The TV chops off the edges of the picture on all VCDs - its just that you're unlikely to notice unless you use subtitles.

The way around it is to somehow put borders right around the picture. That way the TV crops off the borders, leaving your actual video intact. Unfortunately I do not know how big the borders must be, nor how to put them on. Perhaps someone else can help you there.