Keeping a Divx widescreen while making a VCD/SVCD

[OJ Simspon]

I have a few Divx movies and i can get the movies encoded to VCD and SVCD format. But i have used TMPGEnc and i can not seem to get the aspect to stay widescreen. I have used the guides on this site. The video outcome is fullscreen version when i want a widescreen video. I also have used the Cinema Craft encoder to reencode the divx to mpg. This keeps it widescreen but makes a video and audio into separate files. Is there a way to use these files and just put these onto a disc? Or do i need to encode it again to make it VCD/SVCD? I would appreciate any help.

[xzarkad]

If you have a widescreen TV, then use 1:1 in the output option. If you have a 4:3 TV, then use 16:9.
(1:1 means, aspect ratio will be the same as the source, and if the source is widescreen, or anamorph, then it will be the same) (16:9 means that black bars will be added to have a widescreen movie in fit in a 4:3 TV)

[OJ Simspon]

Ok my problem is that i have a normal T.V 4:3 but i want the widescreen bars because the video doesn't have the proper shape to it when i compare it to the original divx movie. I asume you are talking about TMPEnc when you are telling me to use 1:1 which i have and it doesn't work on the computer screen in widescreen. I don't recall seeing a 16:9 view source. But i will check. As for the cinema craft encoder giving me an audio and video track what do i do with these? I would hate like hell to have to encode them again if i loose the widescreen.

[xzarkad]

Anwer to TMPGEnc question:

Open TMPGEnc
Go to setting and then advanced.
In the field "source aspect ratio" choose 16:9 display
In the field "video arrange metod" choose: Full screen(keep aspect ratio)

I did not understood your CCE question.

[OJ Simspon]

My CCE question was that the program encodes avi and divx to mpg. But in doing so makes a audio file (.mpa) and video file (.mpv) both of which are separate from each other. It also makes another file which i don't understand. I know that the mpa is mpg audio and mpv is mpg video. I was just wondering if i can use these two files to just put onto a VCD directly (without reencoding them again.) I figured in TMPGEnc that the 1:1 was making an exact copy along with the keep aspect ratio in the video arange method. I do realize that i was wrong your help did help me but my question still stands with the video files from CCE.

Thanks xzarkad

[xzarkad]

Hi O.J.

You do not have to reencode both files again, you just have to add them together. You can use TMPGEnc or BBmpeg to add the audio and video part. In TMPGEnc you use the multiplex function for this.

The third file generated by CCE is probably the video information file. This file contains information for the CCE encoding process. (to use optimal bitrates for all scenes)

I hope this helps.

[OJ Simspon]

Thanks that does help me but how can i split up the file or make it smaller to either fit on 1 disc or keep the quality and make more discs? Will nero do this for me?

[spidey]

You need to use a knife to cut them............oh..........errr. .... ..my bad,........... Juice.

Seriously though, look to the left on the EDIT section. You may also cut them with TMPG.

Keep chipping them golf balls........

[Akai Rounin]

Cutting Edge...

Anwer to TMPGEnc question:

Open TMPGEnc
Go to setting and then advanced.
In the field "source aspect ratio" choose 16:9 display
In the field "video arrange metod" choose: Full screen(keep aspect ratio)

Orenthal: If this still doesn't work, try using Full screen (keep aspect ratio 2) instead. This will cut down on overscan cropping that occurs on television sets with rounded corners.

Also, make sure that Setting | Video | Aspect ratio: is also set to 16:9 525 line (NTSC), or... something.

Experimentation is the key. You may also want to skip using that Cinema Craft thingie and just load your original DivX files into TMPGEnc to begin with. That way you won't lose a generation of your video.

HUN-YA!

Red Ronin

[banjazzer]

Open TMPGEnc
Go to setting and then advanced.
In the field "source aspect ratio" choose 16:9 display
In the field "video arrange metod" choose: Full screen(keep aspect ratio)

This is not correct. For a DivX source, source aspect ratio should be 1:1(VGA). Video arrange method is as you suggested.

[xzarkad]

Banjazzer, are you sure?

OJ simpson wrote that he has a 4:3 TV set, and wants black bars added. when you select 1:1 in TMPGEnc, no black bars are added.

Suppose the DIVx source is anamorph? if you select 1:1, then the SVCD output will also be anamorph, and will be of no use to a 4:3 TV set, only to a widescreen TV.

[poonaner]

Bajazzer is correct

it has to 1:1 VGA for a DIVx file to encode and keep its black bars

thats all there is to it.

-LAMBERT[/quote]

[banjazzer]

Banjazzer, are you sure?

Presuming a DivX has correct aspect ratio already, source aspect ratio is always 1:1(VGA). You can adjust the aspect ratio in advanced settings (usually set to 4:3) to better suit your TV set, but if you want your mpg to have the correct aspect ratio, it is as I said.

[OJ Simspon]

Well quite a few of you posted and some of the facts were right and some wrong. I'm not gonna sit here and nit pick at any of you but, i will tell you that with my experimentation that i have discovered to make a Divx avi i need to select 4:3 for some TV shows i have and that for Widescreen DVD rips i do need to make the video in 16:9 and select fullscreen (keep aspect ratio). As for just putting my Divx file into TMPGEnc some files do work and some don't TMPGEnc is kinda picky on which files it likes and doens't like. To put a final rap on the 1:1 (VGA) it has never worked for my files for keeping the aspect ratio of the original file. [/quote]

[banjazzer]

I'm not gonna sit here and nit pick at any of you but, i will tell you that with my experimentation that i have discovered to make a Divx avi i need to select 4:3 for some TV shows i have and that for Widescreen DVD rips i do need to make the video in 16:9 and select fullscreen (keep aspect ratio).

You seem to be contradicting yourself here. The topic heading is "Keeping a Divx widescreen while making a VCD/SVCD" If you are creating a DivX from DVD then the source aspect ratio is never 1:1(VGA). If you are creating a (S)VCD from DivX then the source aspect ratio is always 1:1(VGA). If you are choosing an inappropriate video arrange metod with an inappropriate source aspect ratio then it is quite possible that a combination of errors is producing an acceptable result.