How come is the image bigger than my TV screen?

[littleguy]

Im encoding videos with TMPG, but when i'm trying to read them in my DVD player, the image is bigger than the screen, which means I can't see the borders of the movies, I know thats a little detail, but I want perfection there. Is it normal or can I fix this problem?,Does it have something to do with TMPG?

Thanx

[donpedro]

I believe right term for this is "OVERSCAN". Try search on that.

And yes... you can overcome this if you add border to your video = shrink it. But I am not best person to give you details.

[Vejita-sama]

Sounds like a mistake in encoding. What template did you use to encode? OR What's the resolution of your encoded MPEG file? What settings do you use to encode?

I suspect that you have TMPGenc set to center, when you want 'full screen maintain aspect ratio'.

[Conquest10]

Sounds like a mistake in encoding. What template did you use to encode? OR What's the resolution of your encoded MPEG file? What settings do you use to encode?

I suspect that you have TMPGenc set to center, when you want 'full screen maintain aspect ratio'.

i'm thinking this is overscan.

[shawnr10]

Make sure your "Video Arrange Method" is set to "Full Screen: Keep Aspect Ratio" - if your using TMPGEnc, its under "settings", advance tab

[Stonemann]

Im not the most technical guy on these boards but I can give you the "laymans breakdown".

Some signals contain control tracks and whatnot. Take a VCR for example. The very top and bottom contain magnetic forms of data that help determine how it is viewed. In order for you not to normaly see this on your screen the television is setup to do an "overscan". This basicaly crops 10% of the edges away from the visible screen and prevents you from seeing these data tracks.

As has been mentioned already, you can either resize your image and add a black border, or else just add the black border without the resize. Depends on wether or not you care about seeing the very far edges of the original picture. If it is in your menus, then just author them with the thought in mind beforehand to accomodate for overscan when you design.