Squashed output video using WinDVD Creator 2.

[willshakespeare]

Hi,

I did a search and found some info that may be useful, but I can't figure out how to use the info. Perhaps someone can help a newbie?

Essentially, I am "trying" to build a DVD with WinDVD Creator, becaus ethis is a nice easy piece of sotware. Problem is that although the preview and menus all work great, as soon as it starts encoding the "movie", the playback preview shows a "flattened" picture. Normally the picture is 608x256.
And when it's finished, it plays back on the TV in the same way.

Now, I read some forum postings that said something about 1x1 square pixels, and 0.909090909 or something sized pixels, and what I need to do is reencode the avi file. And someone suggested vegas to do this.

2 things...
1. I looked at Vegas, and it seems there are a lot of options, and it is expensive considering I won't use it for much else.
2. I'm still not 100% sure what I need to do even if I did know how to use Vegas!

Also, I tried to reencode it using VDub, but again I'm not so sure about VDub. I attempted to resize the picture to 320x240 so that when it "flattens" the picture, it would look mroe normal (you can see by this strategy that i really don't know what I am doing!) but all this did was fill up my harddrive with a 63GB avi file, which of course wouldn't fit onthe DVD+RW!!

So... can anyone help me reencode this avi file, and a few others I have which were originally made in the US (family - I live in the UK) by offering 2 things:

1. A link to a freeware tool that is very basic and will do what I need.
2. Steps on what to do once I have this tool?

You see I can then use WinDVD Creator, which i got an OEM version with my Motherboard, to make the DVDs.

Thanks in adavance,

Will

[lordsmurf]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=275249