16:9 or 4:3 or what?

[nick_gr]

What I want to do.
Convert a 524x212 DivX (.avi) movie to DVD (.vob).
Play it on a wide (16:9) tv full screen.
Play it on a normal (4:3) tv with black borders up and down.

what happens to me now:
Plays on 16:9 tv well... no stretch!
Plays on 4:3 tv... movie stretched...

[guns1inger]

How did you create the VOBs ? Let me guess - WinAVI ?

You can't do what you wan't to do anyway. If you go 16:9, then you will get either no bars or slim bars top and bottom on a widescreen TV, and much wider bars top and bottom on a 4:3 TV.

If you encode 4:3 then you will get borders all around on a 16:9 TV unless you zoom in, and bars top and bottom on a 4:3 TV.

And if you continue to use WinAVI you will go round in circles, getting no where.

[nick_gr]

I did the vobs with convertxtodvd and authored them with dvd lab. Came out pretty good.

You can't do what you wan't to do anyway. If you go 16:9, then you will get either no bars or slim bars top and bottom on a widescreen TV, and much wider bars top and bottom on a 4:3 TV.

Thats exactly what I want! But I went with 16:9. On a widescreen tv I had small bars top-bottom, but on 4:3 tv the movie was stretched. like it squeezed the 16:9 movie to 4:3. Could I just have the wider bars instead of squeezing??

[jagabo]

Resize the video to 720x416, add 80 lines of black to the top and bottom to make the frame 720x576, encode as 16:9 PAL DVD.

[nick_gr]

isnt what i want to do called "16:9 anamorphic"?

[manono]

Hi-

isnt what i want to do called "16:9 anamorphic"?

Yes, and jagabo just described how to resize for a 16:9 encode.

If it plays OK on the 16:9 TV set, but not on the 4:3 TV set, then are you moving the DVD player from one TV to the other? The reason I ask is that it sounds to me like you have the player set up wrong for the 4:3 TV. Go into player setup and make sure you're outputting for a 4:3 set when playing to the smaller TV.

[nick_gr]

good point manono!
"problem" fixed...