4:3 to 16:9

[maartend.hetnet]

Hello
I have a VCD that is not correctly converted.
It is converted in 4:3 but it is a 16:9 VCD.
Is there a simple way to fix this?
I don't want to rip and convert the movie all over again.

grtz
maarten

[BodyMaker]

16:9 is not a valid format for (S)vcd it has to be encoded in 4:3

[maartend.hetnet]

Not true.
When I rip a 16:9 DVD, I would like so see it as a widescreen and not as a stretched 4:3.
And that is what happend.
The guy that ripped the 16:9 dvd made it into a stretched 4:3 and that looks horrible on my TV.
And that's why I want to make a 16:9 movie out of it

[DJRumpy]

You can change the DAR flag using Pulldown, without re-encoding the file. From your description, it sounds like the person who created the VCD has chopped your video to a 4:3 aspect ratio? If they did this sort of destructive editing, you cannot get it back. You could only crop even more off the top and bottom, to make it widescreen again (not suggested).

If they simply selected the wrong aspect ratio (does your video look tall?), then the fix is a simple run through PULLDOWN.EXE (get the GUI for it).

BodyMaker is correct. VCD, CVD, and SVCD do not support 16:9 in the specifications, although you can encode a 16:9 movie, and simply set the DAR flag as 4:3, resizing your video to 4:3 aspect ratio, and adding letterboxing. You can also set the DAR to 16:9, although your technically makeing a non-compliant disc if you do. You can also simply squeeze your video into that aspect ratio, without adding letterboxing, also setting a 4:3 aspect ratio DAR, and playback on a 16:9 TV will still look correct. Of course that last option makes the disk kind of useless for someone with a 4:3 television, but it would create a technically compliant disc with 16:9 animorphic widescreen output..

[maartend.hetnet]

"If they simply selected the wrong aspect ratio (does your video look tall?), then the fix is a simple run through PULLDOWN.EXE (get the GUI for it). "

This is what they did.

Pulldown.exe, I start looking for it

thnx.

[DJRumpy]

You should also get the GUI for it. Search google for pulldown.exe and GUI.

[maartend.hetnet]

Already did
Doom9 (ofcourse)

thnx
Maarten

[maartend.hetnet]

Sh*t.

Dopulldown is 4 mpg2 files (or mpv).
No what?

grtz

[DJRumpy]

It shouldn't matter, although I've never tried it with MPEG-1. I wouldn't use DoPulldown, as the version I tried gave me corrupted output. Just find the original pulldown.exe, and the pulldown gui. Run it through. You'll have to demux it first into the corresponding M1V, and MPA files (pulldown won't accept a multiplexed video stream).

[maartend.hetnet]

Found both programs, but I can't find a 16: converter in it.
plz help

grtz

Maarten

[DJRumpy]

After you have pointed the GUI to the PULLDOWN.EXE (this should happen the first time you launch the GUI), click the OPTIONS button. Put a check in the 'Aspect Ratio' checkbox, and click the 16:9 ratio button. No other options should be checked. Click save. Click Process.

That's it.

[maartend.hetnet]

U must have another GUI than I have
Mine won't need to split the files into m1v/mpv and mpa
In mine there is no aspect ratio (I know what I was looking 4)

So I ghave to look for another 1.

Help?

grtz
Maarten

[DJRumpy]

You probably grabbed the DoPulldown? Look for PULLDOWN.EXE, and the Pulldown GUI (if you can't find them here, go to www.doom9.org in the downloads section).

[maartend.hetnet]

No, i have pulldown.exe and a Gui, not the dopulldown (have that 2).
And at doom9 there is only a dopulldownlink.
and all the other links (google) I found are the PulldownbatchFE Gui and that w'n't give me an aspect retio conversion.

help?

Maarten

[DJRumpy]

PulldownbatchFE Gui is the one that you need, and it does change the DAR flag. Just follow the instructions above.

[VidGuy]

Running pulldown on an MPeg1 (VCD) file will not work - there are no RFF flags in MPeg1 for it to set.

I've never tried running it on an MPeg1 but it will either do nothing, or it will actually corrupt the video.

[maartend.hetnet]

Hehe, now I know why I can't figure it out.

thnx
Maarten

[DJRumpy]

VidGuy, we're not performing pulldown on the mpeg. We're changing the DAR flag. Use the nopulldown option, to simply change the flag without performing pulldown. I've done it many times, although I have yet to try it on MPEG-1. I'll see if I can try it out today.

[DJRumpy]

Well, I ran a few different tests. I was able to demux and run the mpeg-1 through pulldown. Attempting to select the option to remove the RFF flags caused the program to refuse to run. If I only selected the new DAR, and selected the 'NoPulldown' option, it would run, and the dialogbox reported that it had disabled pulldown, the output was fine (not corrupt), however, it changed the framerate to 29.97. Not via telecine, but simply by speeding it up to 29.97.

I'd say you were out of luck, unless the newer DoPulldown can handle MPEG-1. It seems I recall one other program that would let you modify the MPEG flags, but I can't recall the name. Check the Doom9 web site for multiplexers.