Changing resolution/aspect ratio for mpeg movie?

[thredworm]

I have an mpeg movie of which the resolution is 480 x 576. This makes the picture completely squashed. Is there a program or utility that I could use to convert it to 640 x 320 or something similar so that the movie is actually watchable? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Vejita-sama]

480x576 is the PAL SVCD standard. If you burnt that MPEG to a x(S)VCD and played it on a PAL TV it would look perfect. Question: are you trying to watch the video on your PC or TV? If TV do you live in a NTSC or PAL nation?

[Kool_Aid]

I have the same question.

I live in NTSC land, and I'm trying to re-ecode this 480X576 PAL SVCD to DVD, to watch on TV.

So far, I convert the PAL SVCD to NTSCFilm DVD using the 2/3 pulldown and convert the audio to LPCM 48000 using MainConcept Encoder (stand alone)

The results are fantastic, and the movie looks great, with no jumps or stalls. With the batch feature it even joins both parts of a 2 part SVCD.

On my machine, it takes about 20 minutes per part.

The problem is the aspect ration.

The finished product is only about 1/3 the vertical size of the TV. It's a very thin letterbox.

I have been trying to find a way to increase the vertical size, without making the result look tall and thin.

So far, no luck.

There has to be an easy way to increase the vertical size of the finished product, without have to spend 8 hours re-encoding with TMPEGinc.

Can anyone help?