Black borders at the top and bottom of Video

[Maikeru-sama]

Using HCenc, I encoded an AVI file to M2V. I specified 16/9 Aspect Ratio in HCenc and in AviSynth, I add no borders and no cropping.

When I authored the DVD and watched it in a stand alone DVD Player, it has black borders at the top and bottom of the picture. I have my Plasma TV set to 16/9 Ratio as well. Also, the AVI file doesn't appear to have borders on it when I view it in Mplayer. Is there anyway I can get rid of the black borders. See info below:

Avisynth:

AVISource("C:\mymovie.avi", audio=false)
LanczosResize(720,480)
AssumeFPS(25)

Mediainfo:

General #0
Complete name                : C:\mymovie.avi
Format                       : AVI
Format/Info                  : Audio Video Interleave
Format/Family                : RIFF
File size                    : 330 MiB
PlayTime                     : 42mn 11s
Bit rate                     : 1093 Kbps
StreamSize/String            : 1.52 MiB

Video #0
Codec                        : XviD
Codec/Family                 : MPEG-4V
Codec/Info                   : XviD project
Codec profile                : Simple Profile/Level 3
Codec settings, Packet bitst : No
Codec settings, BVOP         : No
Codec settings, QPel         : No
Codec settings, GMC          : 0
Codec settings, Matrix       : Default
PlayTime                     : 42mn 11s
Bit rate                     : 896 Kbps
Width                        : 640 pixels
Height                       : 432 pixels
Display Aspect ratio         : 1.481
Frame rate                   : 25.000 fps
Resolution                   : 8 bits
Chroma                       : 4:2:0
Interlacement                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)           : 0.130
StreamSize/String            : 270 MiB
Writing library              : XviD 0.0.0
Writing library/Date         : UTC 2003-03-25

Audio #0
Codec                        : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
PlayTime                     : 42mn 11s
Bit rate mode                : CBR
Bit rate                     : 192 Kbps
Channel(s)                   : 2 channels
Sampling rate                : 44.1 KHz
Resolution                   : 16 bits
Video0 delay                 : 26ms
StreamSize/String            : 57.9 MiB

[45tripp]

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why don't you post a screenshot or two from vdub.


tripp

[Maikeru-sama]

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why don't you post a screenshot or two from vdub.


tripp

Screen shots of the AVI file or the rendered M2V file?

[45tripp]

both, but mostly the avi

[Maikeru-sama]

No black borders on top or bottom. Don't have time to really look into it, maybe it is the TV, but it is set to 16/9.

AVI in VDub


M2V in VDubMod

[Maikeru-sama]

Further investigation would seem to point at the DVD Authoring Software, TMPGenc 1.5. When I look at the clip preview, it has borders around it. I don't think there is a setting that you can change.

I will try to use TMPGenc 3, which I really dislike using .

[guns1inger]

Tmpgenc 1.5 doesn't re-encode, I believe, so it won't add borders.

You do understand that you will create a distorted image with this resize ?

I also assume you are applying pulldown with DGPulldown to get from 25fps -> 29.970fps before you author ?

[Maikeru-sama]

Tmpgenc 1.5 doesn't re-encode, I believe, so it won't add borders.

You do understand that you will create a distorted image with this resize ?

I also assume you are applying pulldown with DGPulldown to get from 25fps -> 29.970fps before you author ?

No, I didn't know I would get a distored image and it doesn't look distorted on DVD. When I added the cropping from FitCD, it looked distorted, but once I removed the cropping it looked fine.

However, I defer to you and could you suggest what size I should be using?

Yes, both HCenc and DGPulldown were used via TShed.