VCD Doesnt Fit The Screen

[Mr Thundercleese]

I know this has probably been covered already but im new to this forum. I am having problems getting my VCDs to fit the screen with a panasonic RV31-UK. the tops and the bottoms, left and right sides of the picture are cut off. If anyone has any soloutions or recomendations to the fix problem i would greatly appreciate it. I use Nero Burning ROM and tmpgenc.

[Anonymous65]

All TV sets have around 20% overscan, so you will not see all the way to the edge on a TV set like you do on a PC monitor. This is normal, and in most cases there is nothing you can do about it unless you go inside the TV and adjust the height and width of the TV picture.

[Mr Thundercleese]

ahh. that makes sense. Is there anyway to change the size of the actual video to make it fit the screen. I tried clipping the video with tmpgenc but it cut off the top. Any way to clip it without chopping off any edges?

[Anonymous65]

You would have to find out how much your TV is overscanned, and then add a black border around your video. But, you will have to do a lot of frame size procession to squize the video and fit it inside another frame, and still have the correct aspect ratio and frame size for VCD burning. A combination of Vdub and Tmpeg should be able to do it.

However, the way to solve this problem is to remember that you have a border around your image that you will not see. You will find that all professional characher generators, video cameras, editors and other video equipment will have a safe area frame on full screen video displays, and anything important has to be placed inside this 20% safe area.

[vitualis]

A 20% border is probably overkill. Generally, 10% is safe. Your average TV probably crops no more than approx. 5% off all sides (but it may do some sides more than others).

The demo VCD at the VCDImager site contains high resolution stills where you can measure exactly how much is cropped on each side (in "high-res" pixels, "normal-res" pixels, or percentage).

http://www.vcdimager.org/discs.phtml#demo

Regards.