Aspect ratio Problem??

[mb571]

While experimenting with DVD2SVCD I stumbled on the following problem. I was backing up one of my kids' dvd's and tried the one step DVD2SVCD. It worked great other than I had poor settings making a 73 minute single disc svcd image. I fixed that problem. The aspect ratio on the box says "Family Friendly Widescreen" (1.66:1). Enhanced for 16 x 9 tv's. The movie made with DVD2SVCD had the correct aspect ratio of 1.66:1. But when I decided to use the .d2v file and re-encode to two 37 minute discs manually with TMPGEnc, the movie turned out to be 1.33:1.
I tried all the aspect ratio settings (FS Keep Aspect Ratio) in TMPGEnc but the movie keeps comming out 1.33:1. I don't understand this as DVD2SVCD used TMPGEnc for encoding when I got the movie with the correct aspect ratio. Am I missing a setting that DVD2SVCD is triggering in TMPGEnc??

Mark

[Vejita-sama]

Don't use the D2V file, use the generate AVS (avisynth) script file. That contains the resizing information to perserve the correct aspect ratio.

[mb571]

There is no avs file that was generated by DVD2SVCD.
I have since been able to encode a svcd with the correct aspect ratio.
The setting I changed in TMPGEnc was:
Source Aspect Ratio: 16:9 525 line (NTSC)

Mark

[Vejita-sama]

If you used DVD2SVCD there was an AVS file generated (I assure you, this is how DVD2SVCD frameserves to CCE or TMPGenc). I normally have the 'save all files' (or is it don't delete any files) boxed checked. I don't think that DVD2SVCD erases this file when it finishes encoding but it might.

Anyway, glad you got everything to work.