black bars at the top & bottom

[joshuaindi169]

hi can anyone please help me i am copying my dvds to vcd and i am getting a very slim picture and very big black bars at the top and bottom.
i have shop bought vcds and they do not have this am i doing something wrong.
any help would be very much appreciated.

[Conquest10]

you need a new tv.

[Ebanezum]

If you are ripping a 16:9 or widescreen movie the standard setting for the VCD is letterbox mode
On a standard 4:3 TV the picture proportions are correct. (Shows circles as true circles)

If you are going to view the VCD on a 16:9 widescreen TV you set 4:3 in the aspect setting.
This will fill the VCD window and display correctly on a 16:9 TV but will look squashed on a computer screen so you would have to drag it with the mouse.

[KingJohn]

you need a new tv.

I have seen a lot of your posts lately with these useless remarks, if you cannot help then why bother to reply ?

They are all over the forum, are you trying to get the number of posts you made up ? You don't get a medal by making 1000 + posts

[Conquest10]

you mean i don't get a medal?
i only answer like this to questions like this. if you look at my posts, i try to help people that have real questions not people who are too lazy to read a little.
i mean, you wrote some of the guides in here. how do you feel about the people coming on here basically saying they're not going to waste their time reading what you took the time out to write?

[KingJohn]

They dont say they are not going to read any guides, they may not know they are there. No amout of guides will stop the same question from being asked over and over.

that have real questions not people who are too lazy to read a little.

What is a real question, is it one where the person does not know the answer, and so asks it ?

hi can anyone please help me i am copying my dvds to vcd and i am getting a very slim picture and very big black bars at the top and bottom.
i have shop bought vcds and they do not have this am i doing something wrong.
any help would be very much appreciated.

How much longer would it take to answer the question , then to post

"I don't know so Ill post a silly remark"

Nobody is saying that while answering the question you could have added your remark in fun, or even after you have answered, you could add "next time do a search" nothing wrong with that...