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31. October 2001 @ 01:44

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Hi all, great site. I am new to DVD ripping and video editing. I have a few questions about video size. I used DVD2AVI to make the wave file and d2v files. The aspect ratio was 16:9, frame rate was 23.976, and the video type is film. I am also using TMGEGnc 2.00.29.113. If I use different templates for VCD or SVCD, the mpeg is in diferent video sizes. 352x240 and 480x480 respectively. VCD seems to be letter boxed and spans across the comp screen with black space at the top and bottom. SVCD just takes up a square in the middle of the screen and seems a bit squished. If I want to burn to a cd and then watch the movie on a regular DVD player, wich do I choose and will the picture look letterboxed, or will it fill the screen? Hope I gave enough info.

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31. October 2001 @ 04:57

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VCD is letterboxed because VCD movies can't have information in the stream that would tell to your stand-alone DVD player and/or widescreen TV that the movie is in 16:9 format and therefor only option is to have it in 4:3 and letterbox it.

As for SVCD, 99% of software based video players can't read the aspect ratio bits from SVCD files correctly, but there is one. SVCD can tell your DVD player and/or ws TV that the movie is in 16:9 format and the player/TV then stretches the movie (480x480 as you said) to cover the full screen.

And if you started wondering "why strecth it, it makes picture worse" -- no it doesn't. DVD picture for example, is _always_ and I really mean _always_ in 4:3 in terms of pixels. But 16:9 movies have the same 16:9 aspect ratio bit as SVCD files can have and your player knows that "ok, this movie needs to be stretched in order to view it correctly".

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