aspect ratio for wide-screen conversion

[kemouse]

What's the proper aspect ratio for wide-screen format? I ripped and burned Ghost in the Shell and it's like watching a movie that hasn't been formatted to fit the screen, i.e. you see the center parts but the left and right sides are out of your plane of view...thanks

[Kwulabear]

What are you using to encode?

If using tmpgenc, then choose 4:3 display on the video tab next to aspect ratio and under the advance tab set your source aspect ratio to what the movie is, usually 16:9 525 line (ntsc) or 16:9 625 line (pal) and under that next to video arrange method, choose full screen (keep aspect ratio)

[kemouse]

That worked out great. Thank you