DVD Player Clipping My VCD Edges

[Rathus]

First off, the problem i'm having is that any VCD i make using all the standard tutorials here does not display properly on my DVD player. When i play any DVD i make on my DVD player, all the edges are cut off (very similar to the "no margins" setting in TMPGEnc). I've tested my VCDs in WinDVD, and also tried playing them as movies in WMP and in both those cases it displays normally. I've has my DVD player longer then i really knew about VCDs, i just picked up a CD-Writer. The player is an RCA 5240P ( see here ), and everyone seems to say it's great for playing VCDs, is compatible with almost anything out there, even at extreme bitrates (which so far everything i've made has read perfectly), and no one has mentioned any problem similar to mine.

I'm using TMPGEnc using the standard templates (following this tutorial ) and also have tried messing with a few other settings. Using the "Center [Keep Aspect Ratio" chops off a lot (understandably since my source is large), "Full Screen [Keep Aspect]" also chops off the edges but not as much as the previous. I've even tried using a Center with custom res of 320x240, there still is missing video along the sides. The only way i've been able to get rid of it was a custom center of something like 292x219 which i'd like to avoid since the quality is already kind of low at 352x240.

I've tried this with 2 different videos, one is an NTSC-Film at 480x360, and the other is NTSC at 352x240, both in multiple types, sizes, etc.

Well, as for my, i'm confused. No matter what i try i get this problem, and no one else seems to mention it.

Using TMPGEnc to encode from DivX to MPEG-1, and using VCD Easy to create menus and chapters, and use it's integrated writing to write my CDs (although i'vd tried other programs too). I've gottren to a point where i'm only encoding a 1 minute clip onto CD-RWs as tests but nothing seems to help.

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know, sound like a hardware problem? or is there something i can do to fix it...

[gll99]

The 352x240 should be a standard 4/3 display for VCD and should not get cutoff. How do you identify the source for these 4/3 525 lines ntsc, or vga 1/1 or other?

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[vitualis]

It is quite normal for you TV to cut off up to about 10% of all side of a picture (VCD/VHS/DVD, etc). 5% is more common.

All content intended for display on TV will have already adjusted for this and so no visually important content is near the sides.

http://www.vcdimager.org/guides/mpeg_still_images.html#tv_cropping

You can download the PAL/NTSC Demo VCD. It contains test screens that will let you measure how much is cropped (in pixels and percentage): http://www.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/examples/demovcd/

Regards.