DivX to VCD, and resizing video

[Xanadu]

I'm not sure if this is advanced or newbie, but I think I've played with VCDs long enough to not consider myself a newbie, so here goes...

I got ahold of a DivX movie that's widescreen. Is it possible to conver it to a widescreen VCD? Do they exist? It sucks to have to chop the sides of the movie off...

Also, while I have your attention, how do I convert, or rather resize, from a 720x480 capture to 352x240 VCD? Whenever I try to use TMPGEnc it just shows a small block of the video, but doesn't resize it.

TIA.

John D.

[Xanadu]

O.K., I tinkered with TMPGEnc and figured out the widescreen issue...

If anyone's curious, just set the Source Aspect Ratio on the "Advanced" tab to 16:9. and set the Video Arrange Method to "Full Screen (keep aspect ratio 2)" on the same tab. Bingo, widescreen VCD.

Any answers to part 2 of my question?

TIA.

John D.

[herbapou]

I always capture 352x480 DivX avi with Vdub.

In TMPENc I just put the res to 352x240 and I dont loose any part of the video. But then i am just dividing the height of the frames by 2 so maybe thats why. (I am making 2 pass VBR XVCD - 250/1200/2520)

Maybe if you choose to maintain aspect ratio and go from a DvD format (720x480) to a VCD format, the program has no choice to cut off some parts of the image to keep the ratio. (I am speculating here, not sure).

Anyway, what I wanted to add is that there is a resize fonction in Vdub and since it can handle DivX avi`s pretty well, you may consider doing the resize in Vdub and the mpeg encoding in Tmpenc...

Hope this helps

[NeVeRLiFt]

With Hardware decoders and Home DVD units coming out that support Mpeg4/DivX!
Why even bother using VCD any more?

With XivD, DivX5 and Micro$oft's new mpeg4 codecs coming out....
I think you guys will see that mpeg4 is here to stay

[Xanadu]

Because blank CDRs are $0.50 each and blank DVDRs are $8 each. )

John D.

[tigerwolf]

With Hardware decoders and Home DVD units coming out that support Mpeg4/DivX!
Why even bother using VCD any more?

With XivD, DivX5 and Micro$oft's new mpeg4 codecs coming out....
I think you guys will see that mpeg4 is here to stay

first I haven't seen any that support mpeg4 and I would imagine it would be the same thing as when mp3 was first supported mainly the shitty players like apex supported it. I know I'm going to offend someone with that comment, but ya know what, if you were honest with yourself you apex is the bottom of the food chain here.

If you want to play movies on your home theatre system then you need to be able to do vcd or svcd for the moment.

Let me know when mpeg4 is supported by someone that makes a quality player that doesn't have a record of burning out in 6 months.
in fact, let me know when pioneer supports it.

[Nerk01]

Well sigma is making the hardware decoder card so I don't see how you can call them bottom of the line, and as far as APEX goes i've had mine over a year now and not a thing wrong with it ( except I lost my remote, but that can't be help, user error )

[NeVeRLiFt]

Because blank CDRs are $0.50 each and blank DVDRs are $8 each. )

John D.

ROFLOL

I see that you dont know nothing about DivX... or better yet Nandub or Fairuse. 2hr movies fit on 1cd and look better than any VCD and just as good as SVCD's in some cases.... depending on the movie and its time lenght.

Maybe you goto www.Doom9.org and learn before you make a fool of yourself.


As for the DVD units.... all major brands will be producing them