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    Hello, I'm sorry if this question has been asked before but I'm a little bit unsure what I should be setting the encoder at for this kind of video. I've been doing plenty of 4:3 streams with lots of success, but after going through guides and reading posts I see a little bit of conflicting information, so a little assitance on this issue would be greatly apprecaited.

    I have a video stream that is 640 x 352 (16:1 ratio) that I would like to encode for a DVD. What I would like to know is if there is a setting that if I encode it will allow my video to be letterboxed on a 4:3 screen and show up properly on a 16:1 screen? I don't have a 16:1 screen, but I'd like to make a good quality DVD so should I ever decide to play it on one I won't be dissapointed.

    Is what I want to do even possible? When I was looking through some posts some people mentioned they had settings on their DVD players to make the video letterboxed. I usually play my DVDs on a few different players, the most common being a Playstation 2. I'm not quite sure all the players would have the ability to letterbox a 16:1 ratio stream. Right now I'm leaning toward setting TMPenc to just center the stream and leave it at 640x352. I know this will make it look good on a 4:3 screen, but I don't know how it will turn out should i play on a 16:1 screen.

    Thank you for your suggestions in advance.
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    To future proof yourself, you could encode it as 16:9. The majority of commercial disks are encoded this way. If your DVD player is set up correctly, then they will show letterboxed on your 4:3 TV, but will be ready for when you get a widescreen. If you play any commercial 16:9 disks and they look OK, then you can play back this one. Download FitCD and avisynth. Use FitCD to create a couple of avisynth scripts - one for letterboxed 4:3, one for 16:9. Do a short test encode and see which one you prefer.
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    Thank you for the assistance, I'll go with the burn and see if it letterboxes on my machine. Just to check though, there any way to get TMPenc Plus to do the encoding. I mean, I've just gotten so used to using that program I don't know if I want to switch. I'm familar with setting the various quality settings and such to get the kind of video that will fit on my DVD, but an idea how I should tell TMPenc to place the video file would be helpful. IE: Center, center keep aspect ration, stretch to full screen, etc.
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    tmpgenc does the encoding. Avisynth is a frameserver with built in resize and filter capabilities, as well as plugin extensibility. You load the avs file instead of the video file in tmpgenc. It will get the video from avisynth and feed it through. It is generally faster than letting tmpgenc do it for you.

    That said, centre, keep aspect ratio should do the trick.
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    Ahhh, thank you for explaining to me what that program does! I'll have to keep it in mind. Generally though I'm actually not too concerned over encoding time as I have an extra computer that I can devote to doing nothing but encoding. I'll certainly have to take a look at how well that will work in a batch though.

    Thank you very much for the help, it's greatly appreciated.
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