Captured/Encoded/Burned video, size doesn't match up to TV

[hiflyact]

Hello,

Hopefully this is the proper forum for this question. I captured a video and encoded it to SVCD format 480x480 then burned it and played it in my dvd player with my TV. The show was on off a TV channel where they have their logo in the bottom right corner. The video that I burned, the logo doesn't match up with how it is on the regular TV channel, if that makes sense? It seems to be more off to the right than it should be. I was curious why this is and how to fix it if possible? Otherwise the video looks great, no problems.

Thank You

[geek rock]

did you do any sort of cropping with your encoder program? that may be the cause..

if you didn't, then you could always add a couple of pixels of black all around the edge of the video. i think it's possible to do this in tmpgenc.

however if it's only a very slight change, i don't think it's worth messing around with, really.

-Mark

[sterno]

I've noticed the same kind of thing. Different sources (DVD, VCD, SVCD, and VCR/cable TV) seem to end up with different amounts of overscan. It's never a big enough difference to bother me. For that matter, on my TV a picture with a lot of bright white will have a different size than a dark picture - when a scene goes from bright to dark or vice versa I can see the size change.

[hiflyact]

I guess that is what it's called then is overscan. It's like that for the whole video, it doesn't move around or anything.

I didn't do any cropping nor did I let the encoder do it. I even tried all the different aspect ratios, full screen, keep aspect ratio, keep aspect ratio 2, etc.

Like I said, I was just curious as to why it did this. It looks like it offsets to the right by about an inch or so, but the picture is full screen and looks normal, the left side isn't chopped off or anything.

Funny thing is, if the channels didn't put their logo on the screen, I would never have noticed. :-)