how to record with 640*352 format

[Haboob1st]

hello
my card statalite is Tevii S420
i have dvb dream 1.5 and when i record from normal channel
i found that when i watch the record file in full screen i found that it is not full screen there are free spaces from right and left as this pic

http://i48.tinypic.com/2hncs3a.jpg


i want the recorded file to be full screen without any spaces like this pic

http://i47.tinypic.com/wmi0di.jpg


plz help me
an tell me what is the solution???

[Baldrick]

4:3 video will look like that. Zoom the video when you play to get full screen on a 16:9 display.

[Haboob1st]

i tried 16:9 display and no diffrent
i want u to know that i mean the recorded file when i get it in full screen it has spaces
and what do u mean with zoom how i make it
plz anyone help me

[guns1inger]

You have an almost square video (4:3) inside a rectangular (16:9) frame. What do you expect ? A lot of older material is 4:3, and a number or broadcasters still transmit 4:3 material today. Digital broadcast is 16:9, so black bars are added to the sides to fill out the frame. It is the same as watching a 2.35 : 1 movie on DVD. It is wider than the screen, so black bars are added to the top and bottom of the screen to fill out the frame.

You may be able to find a zoom function on your reciever to zoom the image in to fill the screen. This will cut off some of the top and bottom of the image, but it will fill it out to the sides. Otherwise you will have to capture as-is, then crop the video, resize and re-encode using something like virtualdub or avisynth.

[Ai Haibara]

Some HDTVs may also have an option to stretch 4:3 material to fill the entire 16:9 screen. That's not the same as zooming, so it won't 'lose' part of the image, as guns1inger mentioned. However, because the image is being stretched, objects may look different, like circles being turned into ovals. Whether or not this is acceptable is up to you.

Of course, it's also dependent on your TV supporting such a display feature.

[DB83]

The topic reads "how to record with 640*352 format". To answer just that "You can not"

You do not say where you are from but if your tv standard is PAL then the broadcaster sends a 720*576 signal plus a flag if the program is 16:9 (for NTSC that would be 720*480).

Your capture card needs to be programmed to accept the flag and if there is no flag then you simply receive a 4:3 picture.

Now, if you play back a 4:3 recording on a 16:9 tv, the tv also has various settings as does a dvd player and a monitor. If you do accept defaults then you will probably end up with what you see in your pic. But as has been pointed out, most tv's will have a setting to fill the screen. In the bad old days that would mean a strectched image where face, bodies appeared wider than they should but now most tv's will now allow you to fill the horizontal image and compensate by losing some of the vertical.

Only a pure 16:9 recording can fill the screen without some loss.