PLEASE HELP ...Question About SVCD

[winghd]

When I encode an avi file from my camcorder into svcd the picture gets all tall and skinny. It says svcd is 480x480, so does that mean it'll compress the picture to that size thus causing it to look tall and skinny? Is there any way around this. I want to make a svcd but with the correct aspect ratio. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[mh2360]

What are you using to encode? try setting the source to 16:9...

[winghd]

I am using TMPGEnc. And I tried settint the source to both 1:1 vga and 16:9 and still the picture looks tall and skinny. I want the 2 sides to get cut off so it looks right but it seems like it only compresses it to make it 480x480. I've also done it witha divx movie with the same incorrect aspect ratio result. What am I doing wrong?

[geek rock]

I don't think you're doing anything wrong.

Yes, the standard SVCD size is 480 x 480. so if you play back the video file in your media player, it will look skinny and stretched. if you change your media player to fullscreen mode, or play the file in your DVD player, it will fill the whole screen and look correct. You don't have anything to worry about

Mark