smartripper rips bad resolution

[asdf]

i've tried ripping "the matrix" but whenever i do the picture seems squished together a bit as if i'm converting ntsc to pal. i'm wondering if theres a way to fix this. the picture is fine when played on a dvd player

[asdf]

i've tried ripping another movie and theres the same problem

[asdf]

here are the settings i used - http://us.share.geocities.com/metallismack123/untitled.bmp
you have to save the pic

[Conquest10]

i think maybe the problem is with you, not the software. smartripper only rips the files. it doesn't convert them.

[asdf]

i opened the vob files with DVD2AVI and it shows the movie distorted there. i thought this was just a problem with the DVD2AVI preview window but when i convert in tmpgenc, the movie is still squished. anyway to fix this problem?

[Conquest10]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=136892

[asdf]

thanks for trying to help, but my problem is that the video is already widescreen, and it seems that its squished from left and right. i dont think i'm doing anything wrong with tmpgenc because it already seems off when i preview it in DVD2AVI or watching the vob files with windows media player

[Conquest10]

its supposed to do that. the source is 16:9. so it looks stretched vertically. in tmpgenc under advanced choose the source as 16:9 and the aspect ratio as full screen (keep aspect ratio).

[Vejita-sama]

I assume that you mean it looks squished on your PC. That's normal. The problem here is with DAR (display aspect ratio). There are 3 main ones that we deal with:

1:1 for PC
4:3 standard TV
16:9 movies (and some/most HDTVs)

If you take a 16:9 DAR source and try to watch it (without resizing) on a 1:1 DAR PC monitor it will NOT look right. However, if you just go ahead and (correctly) encode it will play fine on your TV.

Take a look at http://www.doom9.org under "The Basics" there's an article there called "aspect ratios explained" I'd give the full link but the site seems to be down right now

[asdf]

ok thank you very much