vcd in widescreen

[chopper20]

Does anyone know if there is a way of making TMPGEnc output vcd's in widescreen please

[growl007]

I don't know about tmpeg, but in DVDx you can create the movie in letterbox form, so it looks like widescreen. The only thing though is the quality is decreased a little, cause the picture doesn't take up the full capable resolution. I only ever tried to do one movie in VCD, but gave up and went to good old DiVX
Tom

[jupita]

Hi

You will struggle to achieve this. There is no DAR flag on an MPEG-1 stream. Hence you cannot sqash the picture so that it stretches it on playback.

You will have to use SVCD. However be warned that this may not work either. This is supposedly supported. Recently I tried setting an MPEG-2 480x480 into a 16:9 aspect ratio.

It did squash it, but on playback my DVD player played an image which was stretched too far (hence left and right sides missing some detail) and which was shaking. This was a 23.976 fps one though.

You have to use TMPGENC to do it. Just set the target aspect ratio to 16:9. I believe that you may have to set the aspect ratio and resolution to get it to work properly although I haven't tried this yet. I would suggest trying 720 width to see if it works. This is technically a min-DVD though.

[mikewg]

Or just capture it in widescreen mode. I capture directly from DVD... no decrypting or ripping or anything. If I want the widescreen version of something, I just capture the widescreen one directly.

[dirk67]

I also convert anamorphic DVDs to anamorphic VCDs like mikewg. I have to manually put my TV into 16:9 mode though. The Letterbox setting of the DVD player only applies to DVDs, so you need a 16:9 TV or 4:3 TV with 16:9 mode.

Dirk

[SiCN]

Input 1:1 and output 1:1. Most DVD Players anyway don't detect the DAR flag so why bother. Put the TV manually in 16:9 Mode and you have your Widescreen VCD. I don't think it's such a big operation. It also works to set input 16:9 and output 16:9. As long as input and output have the same aspect ratio it doesn't seem to matter. But if you say input 16:9 and output 4:3 it will put black bars on the top and the bottom of the picture.

[chopper20]

many thanks to all who replied to my question