Cropping AVI for widescreen TV

[Nelson9937955]

I have a widescreen TV that I watch all my movies on but I also sometimes watch on a regular 4:3 TV. I have 16 x 9 AVI clips that I convert to DVD. To make them play fullscreen on my widescreen I have been using the crop funtion in TMPGENC Plus. The program I use for conversion. Is there a diffrence by using V DUb to crop AVI or by using TMPGENC? I want to make sure I am not doing anything wrong that I don't know about. I also want to make sure when I play the converted clip on a 4:3 TV, that it will be letterboxed. Thanks

[edDV]

In my opinion, you should leave them uncropped. Rescaling and recompressing will reduce picture quality.

Get a DVD player that zoom scales the playback image if you want to fit the screen vertically.

[Nelson9937955]

Well I have a DVD player with zoom but to me it looks better when cropping is done before encoding. So does anyone know what diffrence would be with v dub cropping as opposed to using TMPGENC to crop avi?

[guns1inger]

Absolutely no difference. It might even be slightly slower. A quicker solution might be avisynth, assuming it's crop function is faster than tmpgenc's in-built one.

Have you tried setting your DVD to play back P&S. This will be much better than zoom mode, but should have the same net effect.

[Nelson9937955]

Thanks Gunslinger, I haven't tried setting up my DVD player that way so maybe I will check that out