Encoding Wider Wide Screen then 16:9

[sherman]

I am trying to back up a movie which is wider screen then 16:9
It is on the DVD with black bars to make it 16:9. I usually do my DVD back ups XVCD 480 X 480 with TMPGenc. I have no problem with 4:3 or movies that are true 16:9, but Movies that are wider then 16:9 won't come out right unless I encode standard VCD specs. This is not good enough quality for me. I thought I heard of a program which can add extra blacks bars to a video so I could make a Very Wide Screen movie encode as a regular 4:3. Does anybody have any ideas to hlep me.

Sherman

[bugster]

In Tmpgenc, use Video arrange method of Centre (Keep aspect ratio). If this doesn't work for you try Centre (custom size) and set the numbers appropriatley.