wrong size after encoding with cce

[ipf123]

I was trying to convert a divx movie to SVCD. I used virtualdub to resize to 480x576 (PAL) and framserving to CCE 2.5 SP but the encoded mpeg has the wrong aspect ratio. The video is squashed sideway (people appeared tall and thin). I have tried to change the aspect ratio within CCE with no difference. Can anyone tell me what's wrong.

[Truman]

I assume, your source is 16:9. Resize with Vdub to 480x432, check "expand frame and letterbox image" 480x576.

[{switu}]

i had the same problem ,but my mistake was i did not check the right aspect ratio in CCE [video settings]

[ipf123]

Truman

Thanks for your reply. I am still stuck. I followed your suggestion, the video looked ok on my comp, but when I burned it with nero, nero complained that it's not svcd compliant. My dvd player does not play it properly. the picture is only on one corner of the tv screen.

I am going to ask a dump question, svcd is 480x576 (pal) I assume 480 is the height and 576 is the width. Or is it the other way round. I am totally confused. Could you explain to me why for a 16:9 video you have to resize it to 480x432. The orginal divx is actually 640x272.

Could you point me to the right direction please. I am having no luck converting the divx movies. I want to convert them so that I can watch them on my tv using my standalone dvd player. I did not have any problem with tmpgenc because tmpgenc does the resizing for me but I want to try cce which is a lot faster.

Thanks in advance.

[ipf123]

The reason I got confused about the 480x576 is that if I use tmpgenc and burn the mpg file with nero, nero display it as 480x576 with no complain about compatibility. But if I encode it through virtualdub frameserving to cce, nero reads the mpg file as 576x480. And it will complain about compatibilty and it won't work.

[VidGuy]

576 is the height for a PAL SVCD. 480 is the width (but "logically", your video is 720 x 576 - the player expands the 480 back to 720 - that's why it looks squashed if you play it on a player that doesn't re-expand it).
Sounds like your flipping the sizes to virtualdub - basically the height is the same as a DVD and the width is just cut down by 1/3.

You're TV is a 4:3 device, not a 16:9 device (at least, normally) So something that is at 16:9 has to be rescaled to look correct on a 4:3 device.

According to FitCD, if you're original Divx is 640 x 272 (I assume it has no black bars on it), you should resize it to
480 x 256 and add 160 pixel borders top and bottom. (FitCD is available in the tools section at the left).

[Truman]

640x272 is probably a 1:2,35 widescreen movie (black bars are cropped). Correct me if I'm wrong.
According to my experiences with widescreen movies set
1:2,35 > 480x320 > letterbox image > 480x576
1:1,85 > 480x400 > letterbox image > 480x576
I assume you use a 4:3 TV. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[ipf123]

Truman
I followed your suggestion and resized it to 480x320 and it worked. Thanks a lot.

Vidguy
I found FitCD extremely confusing. I put in 640x272 and I did not get 480x256 as you suggested. Anyway I tried to resize it to 480x256 and the video appeared squashed. 480x320 worked perfectly.