Controlling Aspect Ratio with DivX?

[JonF]

THis has got to be a stupid question that's been answered many times before, but I sure can't find the answer.

I'm trying to rip a DVD to AVI. It happens to be a PAL 4:3 DVD, and I'm in NTSC land with little experience with PAL.

I've decrypted the VOBs to my hard disk, created a DGIndex project file, written a basic AVISynth script (including smooth deinterlace and framerate doubling), opened that script in Virtual Dub, and saved to AVI using both XVID and DivX (6.4.051). I like the encoding results better with DivX, but the aspect ratio appears to be off. In XVID setup I set the pixel aspect ratio to "PAL 4:3" and the result is just as tall but wider than the DivX version. I don't see anything in the video that I can use as a reference to figure out which is correct, but the XVID version looks better to me and I did set the aspect ratio in XVID ...

I can't find anyplace in DivX where I can control that aspect ratio, but there's gotta be something somewhere! Help? Please?

[SeeMoreDigital]

I can't find anyplace in DivX where I can control that aspect ratio?That's because there isnt anywhere!

but there's gotta be something somewhere! Help? Please?Yes you can use an application called MPEG4 Modifier (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=78050) to add "aspect ratio signalling" (to any ISO compliant MPEG-4 stream) to alter the shape of your encoded pixels...

[setarip_old]

@JonF

Hi!

If you're intending to play your .AVI on your PC, there's no need to convert from PAL to NTSC...

[JonF]

Yes you can use an application called MPEG4 Modifier (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=78050) to add "aspect ratio signalling" (to any ISO compliant MPEG-4 stream) to alter the shape of your encoded pixels...
Ah. Thanks.

[JonF]

If you're intending to play your .AVI on your PC, there's no need to convert from PAL to NTSC...
True. But I'm not converting to NTSC; I'm maintaining the frame size and doubling the frame rate to 50.

[setarip_old]

Sorry, I misinterpreted your initial post ;>}