This could be bad....

[slicknick123]

I just bought a Apex AD-1500 and a am trying to burn a vcd. I have harry potter in divx format and converted it to a mpeg with sound with virtual dub (for the sound) TMPGenc for the video. I encoded at 23.976 fps! Did I make a mistake by doing it at that frame-rate? Will it play okay on my dvd player after I burn the vcd with neo? I really don't want to redo the whole encoding process! Somebody reply and tell me if i'm ok. I live in america.

[impmon2]

Well, it'd be playable but when you encoded at lower frame rate, one out of every 5 frames are dropped so you will have a choppy looking video. Try and play it in your video player (IE Windows Media) and if it looks awful, chances are it's worse on TV.

[kinneera]

No worries - that is a supported framerate for VCD.

[slicknick123]

Well,

It burned fine but looked like crap on my dvd player. It looked all streched out and in low resoloutin. The original divx file looked much better on my computer. Is there some way to burn it in wide-screen? Because that is how it is on the computer. TMPGEnc streched it out to fit the whole tv. I think that's my problem.

[slicknick123]

Do you think i need to burn in svcd format? The original video is 544by240? It needs to be in wide-screen on my dvd player to not get streched out.

[Mordant]

You just have to make sure your source aspect ratio is to 1:1 VGA. TMPGEnc should then automatically add black bars and make the VCD widescreen. VCD/SVCD makes no difference for this.

Use the preview function before you encode and you won't waste so much time =)

[slicknick123]

Okay,

To get it into wide-screen i just checked "Full Screen (Keep Aspect Ratio". But it still looks pretty bad. How do I make it look better?

[Mordant]

Well, it's always likely to look worse when you go from DivX to Mpeg...did you use 2 pass encoding and the SVCD template? 2 pass will give the best result, but takes twice as long.

Take a look at the DVD2SVCD program. It works with Divx files too, just check AVI2SVCD instead of DVD2SVCD, and it can use either TEMPGenc or CCE for the encoding.