Letter Box inside a Letter Box

[Intrepid]

I've ripped a DVD that was widescreen using SmartRipper. I framed served it with DVD2AVI. When it was ripped, SmartRipper said Aspect 16 X 9, type: Pan Scan. DVD2AVI said 16 X 9, but the type was NTSC and Film. When I used TMPGEnc in encode, I got a letterbox version, inside the normal 16 X 9 Letter Box. Above and below the picture were about a 1 inch grey bars, giving the appearence I stated above. I tried using in TMPGEnc the following mcf's ... 4 X 3 Fullscreen, 4 X3 Keep Aspect Ration, in both the Video CD NTSC and Video CD Film. I then did the same thing with 16 X 9. All tries resulted in the gray bars. The only thing I haven't tried (unless there are more suggestions out there) is on the advanced tab of TMPGEnc, changing the grayed out setting. When I clicked on the aspect ratio (standard 4 X 3), TMPGEnc gave me all kinds of warnings about how they are not responsible for what may happen.

Thanks in advance to anybody that can assist, even if it a great template out there that would work on Wide Screen Formats.

V/r
Intrepid

[Intrepid]

Found the solution. Finally got another 16X9 movie to do the grey bars again. This time, I used the last option (under the advanced tab) of environmental settings. It is No Margins (Keep Aspect Ratio). This did away with the gray bars. Hope this helps others out

v/r
Intrepid

[Conquest10]

make sure you don't put the output as 16:9.

[dfgh11]

These greybars as you put it are there because the dvd you are encoding is 2.35:1 and possibly anamorphic. I'm not sure there is a a way of encoding a dvd to be anamorphic 2.35:1 in tmpgenc,although I hope someone proves me wrong, because alot of mine are getting this grey bar as a result.