Settings in TMPEnc

[Maoam_]

I am about to make a movie from dvd to svcd. Im doing it according to Sefy's guide https://www.videohelp.com/sefy/ . Ive come that far that ive done an dvd2avi project.
Which settings should i choose in TMPGEnc so the movie will be as good quality as possible AND so the boys and girls in the movie wont get to FAT or to THIN (or whatever u say).
What means by Field order and Aspect Ratio?
I have to chose Keep aspect ratio 2 so the movie wont be to thin to fat ;P But then it is two biiiiiiiiiiig areas of black in the top and the bottom of the movie, i dont like that.
Which settings u think i shud chose, this is the info of the dvd..

Player Information :
Player Region Code : 2
Current Focus Drive : D:
Title Region Code : 2, 5

Display Information :
Video Mode : Bob
Display Mode : DirectDraw
FourCC Code : YUY2
Surface Type : Overlay

Video Attribute :
Video compression mode : MPEG-2
TV system : 625/50 (PAL)
Aspect Ratio : 16:9
Display Mode : Only Letterbox
Source picture resolution : 720x576 (625/50)
Frame Rate : 25.00
Source picture letterboxed : Not letterboxed
Bitrate : 7.50Mbps

Audio Attribute :
Audio Coding mode : Dolby Digital
Sampling Rate : 48kHz
Audio application mode : Not specified
Number of Audio channels : 6
Bitrate : 384 Kbps
Number of Audio streams : 3

Subpicture Attribute :
Number of Subtitles : 3

Hardware Information :
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU running at 1401 MHz
3DNow! Technology : Not Detected
Enhanced 3DNow! Technology : Not Detected
3DNow! Professional Technology : Not Detected
IA MMX Technology : In Use
IA Streaming SIMD Extensions : In Use
IA SSE 2 : In Use
Video Accelerator : NVIDIA Hardware Video Acceleration (not in use)
Multispeakers Audio Device : Not Detected
SPDIF Output Device : Not Detected


I'm really noobish, sorry.
I just want the movie to look-alike the dvd as much as possible.

[Maoam_]

can't just any1 tell me;
What means by Field order and Aspect Ratio?

and What i shud chose to make the movie not-to-fat and not-to-thin

[RabidDog]

Look xxxxx big areas top and bottom are becuase the MOVIE IS IN WIDE SCREEN they are meant to be there.
aspect ratio 16:9 means for every 9 cms high it will be 16cm wide.
letterbox ? you know what a letterbox is dont you?? it the thing on your front door that the postman puts letters thru. Its much wider than its height. Just be thankful your movie is not in 2.35-1 extra widescreen.

[Maoam_]

haha well. Ok.
But the dvd isnt in widescreen when im watchin it so, i dont want my svcd to be that either.

[RabidDog]

Aspect Ratio : 16:9
Display Mode : Only Letterbox

is what you said .. I dont understand why its not widescreen?? what film is it?
the settings in tmpgenc "keep aspect ratio 2" will keep the original aspect ratio. maybe svcd do not set correct aspect ratio on your widescreen TV/dvdplayer. Is it connected via scart plug?

N.B. you werent too laugh it was an insult!!

[Sefy]

@Maoam_, if you encode your movie into a Full Screen (as in, without the Wide Screen/16:9 aspect) then you will distort your movie ratio. Since your movie IS a Wide Screen format. atleast from those specs you wrote up.

It might be possible you have 2 versions of the movie on the DVD, and you are watching the Full Screen version, you can rip that as well, and you can encode the movie in Full Screen, but you will LOSE parts from the sides of the movie as a result.

[dbecker]

When the original dvd plays in the dvd player, does it play widescreen or amaphoric??? If it plays amaphoric, you can take that movie and set the video arrange to 'no margins, keep aspect ratio. This will cut the sides of the movie off and make it full screen without the 'stretch' look. If it is widescreen it will turn it to amaphoric... I find that if you try to take a true widescreen and make it full screen, it never turns out good at all..