AVI to SVCD via TMPGenc gives a stretched, tall thin output

[quofiend]

Anyway to stop this ? What am I missing ?
Is there a batter way to create SVCD from AVI ?

[DivZ]

If you mean you are getting the stretched output when played back on your pc, then i believe its the svcd resolution. I am guessing that you use PAL SVCD, which has resolution of 480x576, and appears stretched when played back in Media Player. If you want to view it normally, you can use powerdvd to watch it and correct the aspect ratio.
When burnt to SVCD and played back through your DVD player it should not appear stretched (assuming your dvd player supports svcd).

[Conquest10]

this sounds like you put in the wrong aspect ratio.

[widemouth]

In TMPGEnc MPEG settings, set the Aspect Ratio to "Full Screen" instead of "Full Screen Keep Aspect Ratio." This should solve your problem.

Regards

[sherman01]

quofiend,
I am very new to this so I might use the wrong terms, but I think DivZ is right. It could be your media player, not the encoding settings. I just used DVD2SVCD to encode (which really used TMPGEnc to encode) a small portion of a movie. I played the mpeg back in Windows Media Player and got the tall thin picture you described. I played it back in Sonic MyDVD and PowerDVD and the aspect ratio was fine. This frustrates me now because I already scrapped the full movie which encoded last night in DVDx because I thought it was messed up based on playback through Windows MP. If you are using a good DVD player and it still is stretched then try the other's recommendations. But, don't delete what you got until you try it on another player. You may still want to re-encode with other settings so you don't waste vertical resolution on black bars that get encoded as part of your picture, but I'm not sure what settings accomplish this.

Haven't been able to watch on stand alone yet (OT can't find right combination of media/format/burn software) so I don't know how the aspect ratio will look on standalone.

[Conquest10]

if its the player, use powerdvd to make sure. if it still comes out stretched in there then its the encoding. if it comes out right, then don't worry.