Decode Anamorphic or 16:9

[YukonXL]

Hey guys & girls. Was wondering something. I have a Pioneer DV-C505 dvd changer and it's great. I have it set for 16:9 even though my TV is 4:3. My TV is a Sony Wega and it does the thing where it'll stretch the movie so the black bars arn't viewable, then I have the option to compress the picture for better quality. Now, here's my question.

Should I convert my svcd movies to Anamorphic and do the same thing that the DVDs do, or should I just convert to 16:9? Also, does CCE decode movies that are 24fps? Thanks.

YxL

[tonyp12]

Should I convert my svcd movies to Anamorphic

No not convert.
But if you your DVD is 16:9 KEEP it 16:9 on the SVCD.

Your TV has was is called enhanced 16:9 viewing mode,
it resizes the vertical size so the same amount of lines are still
there but closer together and centered in the middle.

And if you someday get a 16:9 TV, your old 16:9 SVCDs will look great.

I'm not sure about if mpeg2 have a letterbox flag so your 16:9 SVCD
may look wrong on a "regular" 4:3 TV.
With VCD I know this is the case.

[geek rock]

VCD's and SVCD's do NOT have any sort of "anamorphic" tag. so i wouldn't bother encoding them with the picture stretched to full screen..

[YukonXL]

Ummm... well. I can anamorph my svcd's. I make the svcd with 16:9 and my dvd player/tv doesn't change the movie so I can't use the enhancement on my tv. When I anamorph the svcd, then my dvd player stretches the movie and it looks stretched on my 4:3 tv. Then I use my Wega enhancement and it puts the black bars in. So, there is a tag that gets put in..... because it works.

[Donny661]

I'm not sure if dvds even have an "anamorphic" flag. I think that they just have a DAR flag that says it's 16:9, 4:3, etc. like every mpeg stream. They just put in the dvd specs that a player has to be able to play 16:9 flagged dvd's and add black bars to display correctly on a 4:3 tv, but they don't have to do this for (s)vcds so most don't.