TMPGENC and anamorphic (16:9 enhanced) video, is it possible

[draftbeers]

Is it possible to create a 16:9 enhanced or anamorphic, which ever you prefer, video in TMPGEnc? I have some excellent quality xvids that I have converted to dvd and I would like to have them 16:9 enhanced. The progressive picture is great on my HDTV but I would like to have the convenience of the picture fitting the screen without having to x:y stretch to fit. I have messed around with some of the resize settings in TMPGEnc but either it stretches out the video or it cuts of some of the sides.
Any advise would be appreciated.
Thanks

[Vejita-sama]

DVDs can be apomorphic x(S)VCDs can not. The apomorphic setting is made by the DVD authoring software. So to answer your question, yes TMPGenc (or any other encoder) can make m2v files, then you can set them as apomorpic when you author your DVD.

I use DVD Maestro for this.

[draftbeers]

I also use meastro. Can you point me in the right direction on how to set it. I have canged the 4:3 setting, located in the movie popup window, to 16:9 and it doesn't seem to work. I don't know if it changed it to anamorphic or not because I didn't play it on my HDTV but on the computer the picture was stretched horizontally.
Thanks

[Vejita-sama]

Anamorpic DVDs work like this. The encoded video is 720x480, and the picture fulls up the entire resolution. Edge to edge, no borders. When you author the DVD you then put in a tag given the DAR of the video (4:3 or 16:9) this is recorded in the VIDEO_TS.IFO/VTX_XX.IFO files.

If you play a 4:3 movie on a standard TV no changes are made.

If you play a 4:3 movie on a widescreen TV the DVD players adds borders to the left/right of the picture

If you play a 16:9 movie on a standard TV the DVD player adds borders to the top/bottom of the screen

If you play a 16:9 movie on a wide screen TV, no changes are made

So the key is to make sure that the DAR of the encoded m2v file is correct (ie. 1.85:1 edge to edge) and then choose 16:9 when you author.

As for what it will look like on your PC. All 16:9 movies will be streched on your PC because the DAR of your monitor is 1:1. Try burning it to a DVDR/RW and testing it out.

[draftbeers]

Thanks for the posts. I will give it a try. I guess I got thrown off when I veiwed it on my computer. Why is it that store bought dvds don't look stretch when played on a computer? I have already wasted alot of dvd-r and don't want to waste anymore because my standalone won't play dvd-rw. Do I need to have a different setting in TPMGEnc other than 4:3 for the output file? As of now I encode with source set to 1:1 and stream to 4:3.
Thanks again for your help

[TurboRunner]

Hi,

I dont know much about making dvd but i may have found a solution that may work for computer as well as dvd
as it works for me except when i author it to svcd/vcd which is the only thing i can create as i don't have a dvdwriter
but since you can tell dvd meastro the aspect ration of youre footage it may work give a test and see what happens then respond to tell if it works

heres the link to the message Authoring my Widescreen Svcd need help?
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=466807#466807

Thinks

TurboRunner