16:9 aspect ratio from DVDx to SVCD

[MadMax_911]

I've always encoded my movies with TMPGs 16:9 Display ratio (Video tab) and my DVD player can play it back letterboxed, panscan or in 16:9 (for my 16:9 tv) I think the quality has improved because of this. Now I tried encoding with DVDx and choose full 16:9/4:3 but my DVD player think it's a 4:3 SVCD because it can't letterbox it. is there a way to change perhaps the file header to make the aspect ratio to 16:9 display instead of 4:3 or is this possible to do in any other way than to encode with TMPG??
Pleasehelp me with this someone must know it...

[pibble]

I would also like to know the answer to this question... BTW I have a Pioneer DV-343 and would like to play 16:9 SVCD's properly letterboxed.

[MadMax_911]

Someone told me by e-mail a week ago that it could be done with hex editing. He hasn't ansvered my mails about how to do it so is there anyone else that have tried it and got it working??

[kriskim]

the thing about svcds that you hard encode as 16:9 widescreen (ie. don't manually letterbox it yourself) is that though there is 16:9 support built into the svcd standard, just about all dvd standalones have problems displaying it properly. which is why just about all svcd dvdrips that are labeled .WS. are manually letterboxed (ie. the black bars are encoded into it)

altho, now that i've re-read your post, i realize that you've already been able to play it properly. can you tell me which dvd player you have, i'd be interested in getting one

i remember there being a program called DARit or something, that changed the dar of mpgs without re-encoding... i have no idea where to find it though...