DVD Fab will not let you select video resolution?

[David97]

If i have a 16:9 movie and want to convert it to xvid etc dvdfab will not give me the video resolution of 720x480 it will not let me keep the movie in its original aspect ratio?

Why is that? Instead it will let me pick

704x382
736x382
752x414

etc..

[manono]

Hi-

Why is that?

Because DVD video gets resized upon playback. A 16:9 NTSC DVD gets resized to roughly 854x480. And that's before cropping away any black bars it might have. A 16:9 DVD played at 720x480 will have everything stretched vertically - people will look too tall and thin. AVIs are generally resized during the encoding and not at playback time, hence the differing resolution choices you get. There's lots on the Internet about this. Try reading this:

http://www.doom9.org/aspectratios.htm

or this:

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/anamorphic235demo.html

[guns1inger]

I have tried using DVDFab to encode, and frankly I have found the output to be worthless. It simply cannot resize footage correctly, and causes huge artifacts, especially with interlaced source. For Divx/Xvid I would rip with DVDFab, and encode with AUtoGK. Superior results every time.