Problem with cropped dvds

[jorgebonafe]

Im trying to convert several movies from divx to dvd. I used the program ConvertXToDVD.

The original file have a resolution of 640 X 480. I tried the three available configurations for TV format: Automatic, 4:3 (Fullscreen), and 16:9 (Widescreen).

The output looks just fine in the computer, except for the 16:9, wich looks all stretched, but I dont really want to make a widescreen movie, I have a regular TV. The problem is that, when I try to play the DVD on my TV, the movie is cropped on top, on botton and on both sides.

Is that any way of fixing the files of the already converted DVD, so it can work properly on my TV? Or maybe there is a program that makes the conversion working well, and as fast as ConvertXToDVD? I would need a program that can add several video files to the DVD. (I converted 9 divx files in 2 hours, instead of 15 hours with The FilmMachine, wich didnt even set the Audio/Video timing correctly, and I dont really know any other program that can easily convert Divx to Dvd with menus...)

[jagabo]

Televisions all overscan the image. You have never seen the edges of any 4:3 picture on TV.

If you need to see the edges of the frame, if you have incorrectly (for TV) subtitled anime for example, you will have to shrink the picture and add a border around the frame. There are many threads dealing with this. Search for terms like Subtitle, Overscan, Border.

[churchie04]

If it is about an inch or so of space on the side, then yes it's just the overscan.

TV's don't display as much of the picture as a computer will. This is normal.

If the image is totally distorted and wierd looking. There was a problem with a recent version of ConvertXtoDVD that caused this. The newest version has fixed the problem.

[jorgebonafe]

I have searched about overscan, and I found out about a program called MovieStacker, that adds borders to a video. But the problem is that it converts the video to a DVD format, and I dont want to do that, because I need to put a lot of files together in the same DVD. I cant find any program that add borders and keeps the original format.

[guns1inger]

ConvertXtoDVD converts to DVD format - isn't that where this started ?

You can do it easily with Virtualdub by using the resize filter, keeping the original size and adding borders. You can then save it back as an avi using the same codec. But you will have to re-encode - there is no way around this.

The best solution, for my money, is FitCD -> Avisynth -> Encoder. Unfortunatelt, ConvertXtoDVD doesn't seem to read avs files, so it is a manual process.