Can someone tell me how to make a PROPER widescreen SVCD!!??

[Douglesh]

I have a movie that is in 1.85:1 aspect ratio format. When i encode the movie it plays OK on my TV with letterboxes. My burning question is, how do i encode the stream such that it will play on a 16:9 TV without any distortion or letterboxing? because i dont want to make 100VCDs and then buy a widescreen TV and have to throw them all out or watch them screwed up.

[scissors]

Well, both full screen and letterbox are 16:9 for a widescreen TV.

If the source was 16:9 and you encode it full screen, then on a normal TV the picture is horizontal compressed, on a widescreen tv you press your widescreen button.

If you letterbox it on a normall tv it's widescreen letterbox, but on your widescreen Tv you press your 16:9 zoom button which zooms the picture out to fill the screen.

both are okay. The second method means you can fit for onto a CDR.

[mickboss]

1st I don´t know one thing:

- What software do you use to make VCD/SVCDs?

2nd:

- You can make movies to 4:3 TVs that work in 16:9 TVs (no distortion in WIDESCREEN but quality and image size not equal to NATIVE 16:9 (anamorphic)

- You can make movies to 16:9 TVs (in 4:3 TVs have the common black bars but EXCELENT in 16:9)

Feel free to E-Mail me with your question and info about the software (if you don´t have the problem solved)

Best Regards,
Ricardo 8)

[Douglesh]

OK let me be a little more clear on this thing here. Im encoding a movie using CCE frameserved from vDub. The source movie is prety much in 16:9 aspect ratio. When i encode the movie in CCE, as an SVCD, it plays properly, showing the normal letterboxes that you would expect when you watch a widescreen movie on a 4:3TV.

My query is, will these movies fill the full screen on a 16:9 TV? and if not, how do i create them such that they do?

[stefanvcd]

Douglesh,

Yes you can make anamorphic SVCDs, BUT, it is not an official option for SVCD. I have created an anamorphic SVCD myself because I have a 16:9 tv.

There is one but, if you make an SVCD anamorphic, you cannot!! play it back in the correct aspect ratio on a 4:3 tv, unless the 4:3 tv has a 16:9 mode.

This is because a DVD player will not recognize the SVCD as anamorphic and will not add the black bars if you have a 4:3 tv, so you will get a misformed aspect ratio.

If you have a 16:9 tv it works great but you will have to be able to set the TV in 16:9 or widescreen manually, because the dvd player will not send the "go to 16:9 signal" to your tv.

To convert it to anamorphic 16:9 you only have to resize the movie, without keeping aspect ratio, that's all.

Good luck!!
Stefan