bad things happening when makeing a sxvcd, help

[mongoo13]

The first thing, I'm getting a boarder all around the video, its got about an inch frame around it. Should this be happening? I tryed useing a 720x480 input and a 352x240 and both get the boarder.

Secondly I tryed to clips to find out what the quality would be like at 100mins (cq_vbr 70, audio 128kb) and the files are not very differn't in size, or at least they don't seem to be. For 60 seconds the file was 9.31mb and for 64 seconds it was 9.81mb. What sizes are you getting when you make sxvcd files?

And finaly the mpeg2 files play at way bigger sizes then they should be, for example the 352x240 file I created play about about twice that when at 100% in media player. I noticed this happens just to my mpeg 2 files. If I capture at any file size with my all in wonder radeon when I play it they all look the same size, but huge none the less. The odd part is that The file properties say they are the size you set when I captured them.

I know this is more than one question but I'm new to sxvcd and figureing if its a good way to go, which I need to know before deciding on a dvd player. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

MOngoo

[Braindrain]

Are you using WMP7 or 6.1? I find WMP7 plays things out of proportions sometimes. WMP6.1 is better for showing the "true" size of an image. (It's still there, called "mplayer2.exe" in the WMP file folder.)

If you're converting to 352x240 (MPG2), it should be the same size as a standard VCD. In terms of file size, if you're using TMPG, there is no logical way of determining it (for XSVCD). When I do encodes, the file sizes shrink when I expect them to get larger.

Lastly, I find encoding SVCD in 480x480 is fine. For DVD rips, even at less than max bitrates (e.g. 1700-2000 kbps), the picture is still crystal clear.