Does the "squeeze trick" apply to svcds I create?

[buzzrock]

Am I buying a new tv for the office, its either gonna be a samsung 27inch HDTV monitor OR a Sony Wega 27inch analog.

Both have the veritcal compression mode or the squeeze trick (putting the available line of resolultion into the the video area) (not the black bars) (on anamorphic dvd's)).

Question is : If i create a svcd from an anamorphic dvd, can I use the squeeze mode on tv and still benefit?

[hp_lovecraft]

Yes
There is a few different ways to do it, but basically, you taking the 16x9 anamorphic 720x480 image, and converting to 4x3 480x480.
In effect, your creating an anamorphic SVCD (which will look stretched if played on a regular TV). It also works well with CVD because you still are using the full 480-line anamorphic frame.

Nick

[bbeiler]

I am dealing with the same type of situation. See

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=125328

However, in that post I mention that my tv vertically squeezes, however it is actually my DVD player that "ALWAYS" squeezes SVCD material so I wondered if leaving the setting (anamorphic DVD's only) to 4:3 to encode a stretched picture (thus maximizes the encode on the picture only, rather than the black bars) then viewed on my DVD player, it will automatically squeeze the picture to look normal.

In my case, since the DVD player is doing the squeezing, I believe it is using a 3:2 pulldown (I think that's what it is called) that all dvd players do with anamorphic material to get the viewing aspect ratio back to normal. However, there is a slight degrade in material.

In your case, since the TV squeezes the picture, the player needs to do nothing and, in my best judgement, would result in a superior picture.

By weary, however, since this is not an actual anamorphic DVD (yours would just be a stretched SVCD), if you play that SVCD on another player (not mine, pioneer 353, because mine would fix the stretched picture) and on another tv (one that could not squeeze the picture), there will be no way of getting the picture to look right.

Changing the setting on the DVD player to a 16:9 aspect ratio would only stretch the picture more. Just something to think about.



In the thread I directed you to, might be a better solution than setting DVD2SVCD to encode stretched material, so it will work in ALL environments