Correcting The Aspect Ratio

[Anonymoususer]

OK Im trying to make Akira Digitally Remastered [Part - 1].avi into a VCD. The file IS a 720 X 368 DVD Rip. It plays widescreen on the computer but
when I encode it using TMPGEnc it plays fullscreen, and YES I have gone in the advanced tab choosen a whole bunch of options but it still keeps coming out fullscreen. Someone told me to use something called " IFO EDIT " to correct the Aspect Ratio of the movie because whoever encoded it didn't set the right aspect ratio, SOOOOOOO can someone tell me how to fix this shit CUZ IM PISSED !

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !

[DJRumpy]

Hmm..I posted the original idea to use IFOEdit, but I didn't realize your going to VCD as your final format. IFOEdit is only useful for files going directly to DVD.

Try the following:

Video Tab:
Aspect Ratio: 1:1 (vga)
Advanced Tab:
Source Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Display (do not pick any with line counts)
Video Arrange Method: Full Screen (keep asepct ratio)

If that doesnt' work, try changing the Video Tab \ Aspect Ratio to 16:9

I'm assuming your source avi/mpg does NOT have letterboxing already added?

Does anyone know if DVD players support widescreen downsizing to 4:3 for VCD's?

If you have a 4:3 TV, worse case, manually add in the letterboxing, and set your source and output to 4:3. You'll get the same affect.

[Anonymoususer]

Someone told me download one of the KVCD templates and basically it fixed the prblem for me. But now the color is messed up so Im gonna try one of the other templates I downloaded to see if it works. Thanks for the help though !

[twen]

Since you have a slow processor, in the future you can do a preview of what your end product is gonna be. Go to Advanced and double click on "clip frame" that will bring up another window. Click on "Arrange setting" and click and hold the slider to show the video. What you see is what you'll get. Then you can go back to play the aspect ratio matching game if that's not what you want. When you're done just cancel it out because all you need is to find out the right (or desired) combination.

[thxkid]

well I had the same problem with a DVD Rip of Spiderman, its a 16x9 enhanced widescreen and some one encoded it at 4:3 so its full screen and all streched out, I just used DVD2AVI 1st to get it back to a Divx 5.02 AVI (since it was a MPEG2), then I messed around with TMPGE to get it back to the the right Aspect ratio, encoded it as a MPEG2, 480x480 at 3000 bitrate CQ and the audio is even in-sync also and the picture and sound are still really damn good also. If I remember correct, at work right now, I changed the output from "Fit to screen" and 4:3 to "Fit screen to aspect Ratio" and 16x9. Also has to use a filter for the interlacing because in was causing scan lines in fast movements without that filter, and I choose "Field A 1st" in that filter.

[Anonymoususer]

Thanks for the tip but I already got it. I used the one of the KVCD templates and it did the job for me. Thanks again fore the help though. !!