Narrow figures

[truffles]

I have ripped/dvd2avi and TMPGenc. My final product was 352 X 240 NTSC, and it appeared to be full screen while TMPGenc was running. What should I have done to keep the figures (ie. movie) in proper dimensions? The people seems to be narrow versions of their true selves.

Thanks. Also, if I don't plan on burning a VCD and want the maimum relustion, what bitrate is recommended or is there something elso I should do. I just finished The Sound of Music on TNPGenc at 1300kps, at the resolution detailed above; 16:9 and 23.976 NTSC film.

[KingJohn]

I have ripped/dvd2avi and TMPGenc. My final product was 352 X 240 NTSC, and it appeared to be full screen while TMPGenc was running. What should I have done to keep the figures (ie. movie) in proper dimensions? The people seems to be narrow versions of their true selves.

Select full screen > keep aspect ratio if the source is widescreen you will have black borders top and bottom, but on a widescreen TV they can be zoomed out.

Thanks. Also, if I don't plan on burning a VCD and want the maimum relustion, what bitrate is recommended or is there something elso I should do. I just finished The Sound of Music on TNPGenc at 1300kps, at the resolution detailed above; 16:9 and 23.976 NTSC film.

If you don't want to put them on a VCD, you may want to use MPEG 4 instead, this will give a high quality and low file size. DivX AVI being the most poplar.

[truffles]

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Thanks. Also, if I don't plan on burning a VCD and want the maximum resolution, what bitrate is recommended or is there something elso I should do. I just finished The Sound of Music on TNPGenc at 1300kps, at the resolution detailed above; 16:9 and 23.976 NTSC film.

If you don't want to put them on a VCD, you may want to use MPEG 4 instead, this will give a high quality and low file size. DivX AVI being the most poplar.

[b]Thanks King John. If I want to use MPEG4, how do I do this. Is it through TEMPGenc, or what. Do I still use Smartripper and DVD2AVI and then TNPGenc...

[KingJohn]

Are you using an all in one ripper, the AVI output should have a setting to select a codec, and also the data rate. You wont need that high a value for MPEG 4, most DVD rips of high quality use 500 or much less.

Also you can re-encode in Vdub, try a short movie as a test

Cut up and save a small section of an AVI using video/audio streaming using Vdub, then experiment on that save with different codec's, and different bitrates etc. Also audio needs to be MP3 to keep file small

Vdub

Load AVI

Video > full processing mode
***Video > compression > Codec (try 3.11 alpha, MPEG 4 low motion) > data rate 1200 ? (Near DVD quality)

Audio > Full processing mode
Audio > Compression > Codec > MP3 (Now choose the frequency to match original, probably 48Khz, then choose 128 Kb/s)

SAVE AVI

***Setting this data rate to that value, may introduce skipping, and the file size will almost be the same as a VOB file Do a test at the default value of 910