Recording DVD movies in Anamorphic Widescreen

[Cosmo999]

Yesterday I installed DVD-Dup, and it worked great. The problem is I have a widescreen TV, and DVD-Dup records the video in non-anamorphic widescreen. Do you know of any way to record the video anamorphically? I don't believe there's a way with DVD-Dup, but can anyone suggest another program that will do it? Thanks.

[Azathoth]

Not 100% sure about this, so someone may need to correct me.

I'm in the same situation you are, I've got a widescreen TV and would like to rip a few of my DVDs and keep the 16:9 aspect.

You *may* be able to do this within Tmpgenc. I know that by default if you encode a 16:9 movie without specifying the "keep aspect ratio" option it will not add the black bars, so your movie output is squished. Thus, if you then took this 16:9 video that was "squished" into 4:3 aspect then it should be displayed properly when played on a 16:9 TV, just as when you copy a 16:9 movie to VHS.

I've been meaning to test this out, but have been just too lazy to do it. Probably will try this tonight and let you know the results.

[VidGuy]

With TMPGEnc - just tell it the source is 16:9 and that the desired output is also 16:9 - then author it with a DVD program that can handle 16:9 - DVD Maestro works great.

[Cosmo999]

Thanks for the replies. I switched to using DVD2SVCD, and TMPGEnc. DVD2SVCD does have the ability to record in 16x9. I'm experimenting with a feature that is supposed to "flag" the disc as a 16x9, so a dvd player set for 16x9 will display the full picture, while a dvd set for 4x3 monitor will play normally on a regular tv. Apparently many players don't recognize this "flag"- I'm using an Apex AD-1200. I'll let you know if it works.