Need help keeping it Widescreen

[venomva]

Hello All,

I've looked and looked and I can't find exactly what I'm looking for. I've done some DVD Rips to .avi (only way I know how to do it). Anyway I've tried TMPGEnc DVD Source Creator to convert them to .mpeg 2 files so I can put them in TMPGEnc DVD Author then burn.

My problem is that with TMPGEnc DVD Source Creator I select DVD and 16:9 but when it's encoding it does it without the black bars on top and on the bottom of the picture. Is there any way/program out there that will encode that will keep the black bars?

Thanks in advance for any help

PS I've searched the guides and didn't find anything so if someone has a good guide please point me to it. Thanks

[ZippyP.]

Video arrange method - Full screen (keep aspect ratio).

Rather than riping to avi then encoding to DVD you could try DVDShrink. It's much faster and the quality is great.

[venomva]

Hey Zippy thanks for the reply next time I will you Shrink... I don't see Video arrange method is that in regular TMPEnc or in TMPEnc DVD Source Creator (which I am using)

[ZippyP.]

In regular TMPGEnc, but it must be in Source Creator somewhere (I hope).

[thecoalman]

FYI the black bars are produced by the DVD player, there not in the video. A dvd compliant 720x480 mpg can be either 4:3 or 16:9.

When you capture a 16:9 it's flagged in the header as 16:9. I'm nor positive but I'm pretty sure this info is stripped out of the video when it's authored and put in the ifo file on a DVD.

[venomva]

Ok, Thanks alot guys (Zippy & coalman)

[thecoalman]

There is a tool in the in the tools section called ifoedit that that can edit the ifo file. If you can't get it to work you could always edit this file so the video is correctly flagged as 16:9.

BTW have you you tried viewing the final DVD output? It may just be that it is in 16:9 but your preview software is displaying it as 4:3. My one authoring program will do that.

[venomva]

yeah you are right coalman...I opened the output file with WinDVD 4 and it showed it widescreen...when I had the video enlarged to full screen the black bars did show....so my mistake and THANKS ALOT