Aspect ratio

[PTTP]

I have an Xvid file with a resolution of 640x272 (Panavision). What do I have to do to keep the aspect ratio and add the proper amount of black bars in FfmpegX? The 16:9 button obviously won't do for that... Yes, I already tested it

[major]

If you're encoding to mpeg-2, just input it with a .mov extension.

[PTTP]

uhm, yes, sorry: I want to make it into some SVCDs. I thought ".mov" was a typical QuickTime extension? But this file won't play/decode with any other thing than mplayer. I will surely try it if the solution comes from you, but care to enlighten me as for why ".mov"?
And do I use the 16:9 button additionally?

[PTTP]

Doesn't work. Same result: There are some small black bars, but they should be much wider for Panavision. Funny thing: Normally FfmpegX starts to encode the sound at the same time, putting a temp file for that in my home folder. Now it didn't. All I changed was the ".mov" extension

[PTTP]

K, what I try now: Using ".mov" extension and 16:9 together. Looks good so far. I hope it will playback fine on my TV/DVD player...

But in the terminal it clearly says now:

"Audio: no sound
Freeing 0 unused audio chunks"

This is not good?

[gmackenz]

I thought what was recommended was to convert the XVID/DIVX .AVI file to a more Quicktime friendly .MOV with the DivX Doctor II application from http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14266 not just changing the extension from .AVI to .MOV in the finder/terminal window.

That works well for me when creating VCD with ffmpegX.

[gmackenz]

My question about the Aspect ratio is that I choose to encode a 640x480 DivX file for a XVCD as 720x480. The quicktime player displays the resulting muxed MPEG1 file as 652x480. Mplayer and Vlan show it as the expected 720x480 ratio. What's up with that? I assume the latter two players are correct and Quicktime is incorrect.

Seems to work okay when burned as an XVCD.

[major]

Quicktime is incorrect.