formula for resizing to VCD?

[newbie04]

Hi all,
I have an avi (624x352) that's in widescreen and when I did an SVCD of it, I found this formula for letterbox SVCD:
Calculated Height = [(720 / X) * Y] / (11/10)

So basically the SVCD was resized to 480x368 with borders of 56 and looked pretty good. BUT then I find out my DVD player can't play SVCD, so I am trying to do a VCD. I'm not sure how to figure out how to resize it right, I've been playing with a bunch of numbers to get it to look alright in 352x240, is there a formula for VCD or something? Thanks for any help!

[teegee420]

Sometimes it's as easy as selecting "full screen(keep aspect ratio)" for the video arrange method. Try that and see if it works.

[DereX888]

teegee420 wrote:

Sometimes it's as easy as selecting "full screen(keep aspect ratio)" for the video arrange method.

...assuming he'll use TMPGEnc

[teegee420]

teegee420 wrote:

Sometimes it's as easy as selecting "full screen(keep aspect ratio)" for the video arrange method.

...assuming he'll use TMPGEnc

Yep, that was a pretty big assumption on my part wasn't it? I should have mentioned which program I was referring to.

[DereX888]

I'd say there is 90% chance he do use TMPGEnc anyway

[newbie04]

I was using DVD2SVCD (in avi2vcd mode), but I willl try TMPGEnc, is that the only way? erm... well that's probably the easiest huh?

[DereX888]

newbie04
DVD2SVCD is just a script that is using bunch of other software and among them it uses some encoder too, either Cinema Craft or TMPEG (perhaps it allow something else, QuEnc or something, I don't remember). What teegee420 suggested is to use TMPG encoder's built-in options of resizing (fullscreen / keep aspect ratio), but Im not sure would it apply to DVD2SVCD - since as I said it is a script with its own built-in 'formulas' to set up encoder it is using, there may not be any option like this even if your DVD2SVCD uses TMPGEnc.

I would just load your avi file in TMPGEnc, encode it to VCD standard-compliant MPEG-1, then author the VCD with VCDEasy in VCD standard 2.1 (thats the one that uses PBC on dvd players - adding nice menus, chapters etc). But thats me, you may like it other way

Easiest way is probably to use DVD2SVCD, thats what I used to suggest to all friends and newbies (for *SVCD* making) but don't take my word for it, I dont know it. And now - since you had to calculate resizing with it - Im not even sure is it the easiest way anymore I

[newbie04]

Heh, well I was following LeeBear's guide (https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/111846.php), and I did it manually like he did because he mentioned that sometimes DVD2SVCD doesn't letterbox correctly, when I did the SVCD.

But since I can't use SVCD, I was trying to figure out how to do it manually again with VCD, but don't know how to calculate the borders.

I guess I will cross my fingers and hope things turn out right with the auto options.