Zoom Control When Encoding

[ratskie]

Tried to find an answer this, but search came up empty.

Most of the commercial widescreen DVD's I've watched allow me to use the Zoom control on the remote (Panasonic RV32) to fill more of my old 4:3 screen, when I choose to do so. But when I encode a DIVX or XVID with tmpeg express 3.0.4.24 that function doesn't seem to work. Is there a setting I'm missing, or is there something in an ifo that can be set to enable this. I've been cropping, but would like to have the option to choose when playing the movie.

Tnx

[guns1inger]

Zoom is a function of the player, not the encoder. My pioneer will zoom anything - commercial, DVD+/-R, DVD-RW etc. It will also zoom a 4:3 up to 4X, and pan around showing only 1/16th of the picture.

Can you zoom a back up of a commercial disk ?

[TJohns]

Sounds like you might be encoding the 16:9 original file to a 4:3 output format, which would mean that TMPG is letterboxing it. That would stop you from zooming if the file was already the right "size" for the TV

Trev

[ratskie]

Thanks for the replies, guys. Between work and honeydo's I kinda tied up.

guns1inger: DVD backups seem to work ok, so it's probably something I'm doing in tmpeg.

TJohns: Good point; I'm not sure I paid attention to that, but will try one that way.

That's why I posted to Newbie forum, after all!!