XVID video size problem

[hddvd2]

i am trying to convert a xvid movie with a size of 576x240 for the movie to a dvd. I have tried AVI2DVD and The FilmMachine but when i play the dvd on my tv the video is cropped. can anyone help me with this problem. thanks.

[jimmalenko]

The video will naturally be cropped due to overscan on your TV. when you play it on your PC is it still cropped ?

[guns1inger]

Use fitcd to create an avisynth script that will resize and take into account overscan areas. Feed this script to an encoder and ecnode as DVD compliant. Author and burn.

Or live with it. It's natural, it's always been there, it's not a problem (unless you download anime with fix subs that have been put in the wrong place)

[hddvd2]

i see the full video on my pc but when it goes on the tv some of ot is cropped.

[manono]

Then jimmalenko's right and it's the TV's overscan that's responsible. On most standard interlaced TV sets, you'll lose 5-10% of the picture to the overscan. If you don't like that, then take guns1inger's advice and use FitCD to add black around your videos to take the overscan into account.

[jimmalenko]

Thought it might be overscan ...

Bear in mind that when you add black borders to suit the overscan on this TV, the next TV you get might have more/less overscan, so you'll either see a black border around it or some more will be cropped. That's just the way it goes, unfortunately ...

[hddvd2]

damn, that sucks. by the way i tried fitcd and i played it on my tv and it looks atreched and is still cropped. any recommended sizes for 576x240? i want to make it a dvd. thats for all your help though.

[guns1inger]

All TVs does thia ll the time, so you aren't missing out on anything you would have seen anyway. All commercial DVDs have video in the overscan area, so you have been missing this all along - has it adversly affected your viewing ?

Personally, I never bother resizing with borders for overscan - it just never seemed worth the effort.

[jimmalenko]

All commercial DVDs have video in the overscan area, so you have been missing this all along - has it adversly affected your viewing ?

You must not forget though that DVDs generally don't have hard-coded subs that always seem to get cut-off by overscan either

[manono]

Hi-

i tried fitcd and i played it on my tv and it looks atreched and is still cropped.

Then you didn't use it correctly. You didn't say if you were PAL or NTSC. For NTSC:

LanczosResize(688,340)
AddBorders(16,70,16,70)

For PAL:

LanczosResize(688,408)
AddBorders(16,84,16,84)

That adds 16 pixels (2 blocks) to the sides. Different TV sets have different amounts of overscan, but 16 pixels should work for many. That's also with the ITU box checked, encoding for 16:9 (Anamorphic). Your Source (if AVI) is 1:1 Monitor, and I choose Anamorphic DVD Destination, although it might be argued that non-Anamorphic is the way to go.

Bear in mind that when you add black borders to suit the overscan on this TV, the next TV you get might have more/less overscan, so you'll either see a black border around it or some more will be cropped.

Jim made a good point there. I used to make all these SVCDs with black around the outsides for my old interlaced TV set. My current widescreen HDTV doesn't have any overscan, and the black shows now.