Help w/ MPG Pal Conversion

[hobojester]

I've got an MPG of a show I like to watch, and it's in PAL format 25fps. It was recorded 16:9 but when it shows up on my player it comes across as 4:3 (lots of cone heads). I've been searching through guides and googling the forums for the last hour but can't get it to work. I've tried using TMPGEnc to re-encode (I'm a newbie) but it still comes out as 4:3 (some of the posts talk about choosing your Output to be 16:9 but it seems that the only settings I see are for the "source" video). Regardless, I've tried setting it to 4:3, 16:9, I can't seem to get it to work. I was maingly following this guide: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/166237.php.

It looks like I just need to somehow convert the video to 16:9 instead of 4:3 and then the ratios will look right. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

[Baldrick]

set the aspect ratio to 16:9 under video(right click on the Aspect Ratio-text to unlock the setting):
and be sure to use a dvd author tool that can keep the 16:9 like tmpgenc dvd author. if you are doing vcd or svcd you can't use 16:9 then you must add black borders.

[Baldrick]

you can also try use dvdpatcher and change it to 16:9.

[hobojester]

Doooooooooood, dvdpatcher TOTALLY worked. And all I had to do was match up the settings and tell it that it was 16:9, it re-wrote the header file in 2 SECONDS!!! That's freaking AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks, I'm just flabbergasted at how well that worked.