Divx to VCD- Screen being cut off....

[Rocketboy_X]

Hello, hopefully someone can help me out again... I have some divx files that are set to VGA size, and when i convert it to VCD, I loose quite a bit of the picture, which is no fun when you have subtitles on the source file. I am using TPMGEnc, and I can't figure out how to do this. The best I've come up with is by cropping the top of the screen, but there's got to be a better way to do this... Anyone know how I can do this?

[Legion1]

I am having the EXACT same problem. Yesterday I made some subbed anime into VCD, and when I tried to play on DVD player, the subs were cut off But when I view on PC, they are still there.

I made a post similar to this asking for help yesterday; no one has replied though

[e-z-e]

This might help you guys with your cutting off problems. Follow these steps.

1.) Open TMPG and choose the aspect ratio that exactly matches that of your source file.
2.) Before you begin encoding, go to Settings--->Advanced--->Video Arrange Method and choose Full Screen (keep aspect ratio)
3.) Begin encoding.

[Legion1]

I don't know the original file aspect ratio, though

Anyway I can find out?

[-=Neo=-]

Don't use DivX as your AVI compression.
Use MPEG or a normal AVI...

[malducci]

I have the same problem with VCD's on my DVD player, but not with SVCD's. The problem is the subtitles are in the OVERSCAN area of the video. Most DVD players dont show the top 16pixels, bottom 16pixels, the right side 16pixels, and the left side 16 pixels when playing VCD's on a TV. The solution is to resize the video to this formula: (VCD_width-32)x(VCD_height-32) and then add a 16pixel board around the video.

In Avisynth it looks like this:

SimpleResize(320,208)
AddBorders(16,16,16,16)

This should fix the problem. You can also try 336,224 and a 8,8,8,8. Always try to use multiple of 8 since of how microblocks are used and compressed ( you'll save on bitrate, giving it to the rest of the video ). Oh yeah, make the border black. This is assuming the video you have is full screen 4:3 ratio. Try FitCD, this program will analyze the source video file to the desired destination format and give you the correct aspect and overscan values for resizing - also includes a fix for CCE microblock/overscan bug.