Is Fullscreen larger than Widescreen (file size)?

[X-treme]

I know it's a dumb question, don't ask

For my own knowledge, if I were extract either the FS or WS movie from a dvd, which would be larger in size? or are they the exact same?

This is why I ask: I was coverting a FS movie to xvid, and was questinging myself... 'if I have the WS version, would I be able to encode a better picture/bitrate because I have 'less' of the movie on the screen?'
The answer to my own thought would be, yes. I don't know why, maybe because I only see 'half' the picture in a WS oppose to a FS, but that is my only reasonign

I don't own any WS movies, that's why I ask

[gitreel]

No

Aspect ratio is what you are talking about.

[mysticgohan17]

I know it's a dumb question, don't ask

For my own knowledge, if I were extract either the FS or WS movie from a dvd, which would be larger in size? or are they the exact same?

This is why I ask: I was coverting a FS movie to xvid, and was questinging myself... 'if I have the WS version, would I be able to encode a better picture/bitrate because I have 'less' of the movie on the screen?'
The answer to my own thought would be, yes. I don't know why, maybe because I only see 'half' the picture in a WS oppose to a FS, but that is my only reasonign

Your reasoning is wrong. Give this a quick look. You'll see that with fullscreen, almost half of the picture is cropped out, only horizontally (not vertically like you had thought).

[Nilfennasion]

With any compressed video format, the only relation that picture size has to file size is that the difference between the size of the video window and the picture will affect the compression ratio. A 1.78:1 video in a 16:9 Enhanced frame will require more bits than a 2.35:1 video or 2.55:1 video (or 1.66:1 video for that matter).

Another reason why widescreen is the only way.