Trouble converting avi's & mkv files

I am having trouble converting avi's to dvd & mkv to avi. The quality stays lovely and the sound but they always turn out with borders / boxed no matter what I do. I still get the whole picture but it is much smaller because of the boxing.

I have this trouble on Vista 64 bit & Windows 7 64 bit, using Winavi, ConvertXtodvd & Aiseesoft MKV Converter. The codecs I use is Vista or Windows 7 codec pack. All drivers are up to date.

Any help would be appreciated

 

Did you preview in ConvertX?



There are many adjustments you can make here to the vid.

 

Thanks for the reply, I never thought to do it through preview, will have a bash at that

 

I did exactly what you have in the pic, and my preview shows the file going all the way across like yours but when I convert it I still have the bars on the side?

 

What exactly are you watching it on/with?

 

On the pc I use kmplayer & VLC, I have tried putting the files on the usb and watching it on my tv, all to no avail

 

Bars on the side sound like 4:3 material converted to 16:9.

Run your source through MediaInfo, choose 'text' and past the details here.

Example:

Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Streaming Video@L1
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 40mn
Bit rate : 2 663 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 544 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35
Frame rate : 24.000 fps
Original frame rate : 24.005 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.159
Stream size : 1.87 GiB (85%)
Writing library : XviD 50

 

The problem is it does it with every avi, if it was only one or two I would agree, I tried Nero Express and that did it perfect, that makes it even weirder lol. The reason I don't stick to Nero is because I want software that puts chapters in, I don't care about menu's can do that myself

 

You probably have an incorrect setting.

Nero Express is a simple burning app, nothing more. If you are referring to converting/authoring in Nero Vision, it most certainly does chapters, either automatically (lots of them) or manually (as many as you want and where you want them).