Standard VCD Resolution.........

[Timsta]

hey, I just want to make a VCD with a cartoon I've got, and right now I am converting it to mpeg with a resolution of 352x240, and it is 4:3. Now is this the standard specs for a cartoon VCD I want to watch on my television? I am using TMPGEnc to convert to mpeg.


Thanks for your help!



Tim

[adam]

If you are in an NTSC region, then yes. There are only two supported resolutions in the VCD standard, 352x240 for NTSC and 352x288 for PAL.

[Timsta]

I've got a problem, the video is 25 fps (this is before I convert it to mpeg). So I have to convert it to NTSC (because my DVD player doesn't playPAL), but the guide on this website was way to complicated. Would you be able to help me out?



Thanks


Tim

[adam]

There are several unavoidable steps involved in conerting PAL to NTSC. I don't its possible to describe the process in words and make it any simpler then a full blown guide with pictures...but I'll try.

Get TMPGenc. Load the mpg into it as your video source, it should also automatically detect it as your audio source. Click on file/export to file/ and select wave. Pick a target directory and file name. After it makes the wave file, return to the main screen. Click load and select the NTSCfilm VCD template. Now click on Edit and on the advanced tab enable the "do not framerate conversion filter." Hit OK to return to the main screen. On the bottom right set output to video only. Start encoding and when its done you should have an m1v file. This is your video stream.

Now find the wave file you created. Load this as your audio source in BeSweet and set output to mp2. Enable the PAL->NTSCfilm option on the main screen and start encoding. When this is done you will have an mp2.

Finally, you just need to multiplex your two streams together. For this you can return to TMPGenc. Hit file/mpeg tools/simple multiplex. For video load your m1v. For audio load your mp2. For output type select VCD mpeg1. Tell it to run and when its done you will have an mpg. Import this into your VCD authoring software and burn it to disk. It should be properly formatted for an NTSC tv now. This is really the simplest way to do this conversion.

[Timsta]

ok I have made a big edit in this post. I did not have to convert toNTSC because it played fine on my dvd player, but the picture was to big for my tv screen. Is there anything I can do about that? I know the video is not messed up because it looks normal on my computer, but on the tv the picture is to big. Is there anything I should change?


Thanks,


Tim

[superunknown]

hi
i think in tmpgenc you need to change your setting in video arrange method under the advanced tab in settings.change it to full screen and reencode.a pal mpeg vcd will play in an NTSC dvd player and vice versa.

[FulciLives]

The picture is probably "too big" because a TV has OVERSCAN whereas a PC monitor does not.

In other words it is NORMAL for a TV to "mask" the extreme edges of the picture (top, bottom, left, right) so on a PC monitor you see more ... but you shouldn't.

If you want to re-encode and "adjust" for the TV OVERSCAN then you can use FitCD to determine what resolution to resize too.

It short you "shrink" the picture to less than 352x240 but add black to all the sides so the final image is 352x240

- John "FulciLives" Coleman