16:9 content buring in 4:3! GRR *SOLVED!*

[PerfectCr]

I am burning 5 episodes of a show and for some reason SVCD2DVD is showing "Half D1 FS TV" in the log. FS TV? The content is 16:9. Worse yet, I just burned a few episodes last week and it outputed 16:9 just fine!

I noticed the log will says normally say "Looking for AVI PAR", then it will say "AVI is 16:9, VTS will be 16:9". Here it looks for it, but never says it will be 16:9.

What's going on? CrissyBoy, I will email you the log. I am using the latest release from the website. Thanks!

[somnus]

sounds like your source is different from the first set you used. Are you making them yourself or did you get them from elsewhere?

[PerfectCr]

Now I realized that when it says VTS will be 16:9, it is actually stretching the Aspect Ratio, so it's like 16:9 Stretched! Maybe S2D is having a hard time distinguishing if the file is actually 16:9 when it is. Geez this is a pain.

[ChrissyBoy]

It is because you have add so many assets (in terms of duration) that it is encoding in half-d1 (which doesn't support 16:9). 3000kbs is the threshold by default for the change from full to half d1. To fit the lenght of footage you want S2D has to encode @ 2592 kb/s.

Solution: reduce the asset duration or add the following in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Badger I.T.\SVCD2DVD 2.0\FULLD1BITRATEMIN

as a string and give it a value under 3000. In this case 2000 should do it.

[PerfectCr]

Great info! Thanks! I will definitely bookmark this thread! ChrissyBoy, you rock!