how can I retain the black bars of the movie?

[jimot]

Hi all.. I've tried to follow the tutorial from this site to rip DVD movie to VCD:
1. Rip the DVD with SmartRipper
2. Make the D2V with DVD2AVI
3. Use VFAPI
4. Use Vobsub and VirtualDub to frameserving
5. Use TMPGenc

This works really fine for me except for 1 thing, if the DVD movie has black bars on top and bottom of the movie, after I make the .mpg file, they're gone... so the picture is not proportional.

But if the DVD movie has no black bars, the result is excellent.
So, how can I not remove (retain) the black bars?

thanks

[tom28]

Check your TMPGEnc template, you will see selections for retaining the black bar, i.e. widescreen.

On the Advance Tab, under source aspect ratio, change to 16:9 (widescreen) according to your source, ntsc or pal, etc. assuming you have widescreen source.

[esset]

hi ! i´ve tryed to do it right with dvd2svcd . but i get chapters that are around 1 gig big each ???(about 5 chapters a MOVIe)

what do i do wrong ? am i stupid or what

[poopyhead]

jimot,

when you're making the .d2v file w/ dvd2avi, a info box should appear telling you the aspect ratio of the movie

this is what you enter in tmpgenc under advanced settings as source aspect ratio (either 4:3 or 16:9 525 line NTSC if you have region 1 dvd)

image positing method should be either full screen (preserve aspect ratio) or fit to frame (preserve aspect ratio) depending on wut version of tmpgenc u have

tom28,

there are widescreen movies (non anamorphic) that have 4:3 aspect ratio.