vcd not centered

[therealjdj]

after i burn a vcd and play it in my dvd player, the video is not centered on the screen. its in the top right corner - how do i fix this??

thanx

[therealjdj]

upps its actually in the top left corner - also im using tmpgenc to encode - PLEASE HELP ME

[jarizappa]

The 'screen-size' should be 358x240 or 358x288 or else it may look like you described.
flaskmpeg or bbmpeg can change the screen width/height.
I'm not sure TMPGenc can do it.

[jarizappa]

Sorry, I mean 352, not 358 (width).

[dphirschler]

I had a similar problem. Audio was also skipping. I found out that I was trying to make a 320x240 VCD which doesn't work too well. I wound up stretching it to 352x240 and it was centered (full screen actually) and audio was fixed.

At the time, I was using a Dazzle DV-80(?), a little device that hooks up to USB. Due to the limited bandwidth of USB, it could not capture any better than 320x240. That's why I was forced to stretch it rather than re-capture at 352x240.


Darryl

[therealjdj]

but my origninal movie is in 576 * 240 isnt that gonna look aweful once streched?? is there no other way??

[jarizappa]

That's some kind of widescreen format.
Shrink it, keep the aspect ratio and and set the height 240 and the top and the bottom will be black. like a widescreen movie on a standard tv.